Division Three: Commercial Enterprises and the Cooperative
Title Twenty-Five: The Limited Partnership
Section One: Definition and Formation
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Art. 594
A. Commercial partnerships
1 A limited partnership is a partnership in which two or more persons join together in order to operate a trading, manufacturing or other form of commercial business under a single business name in such a manner that at least one person is a general partner with unlimited liability but one or more others are limited partners liable only up to the amount of their specific contributions.
2 Partners with unlimited liability must be natural persons, but limited partners may also be legal entities and commercial enterprises.
3 The partners must have the partnership entered in the commercial register.
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