§ 5-420. Immunity -- New partner in existing partnership  


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  •    (a) "Partnership" defined. -- In this section, "partnership" has the meaning stated in § 9A-101 of the Corporations and Associations Article.

    (b) Liability for prior obligations. -- A person who is admitted as a partner into an existing partnership is liable for all the obligations of the partnership arising before the person's admission as though the person had been a partner when the obligations were incurred, except that this liability shall be satisfied only out of the property of the partnership.


HISTORY: 1990, ch. 546, § 3; 1997, ch. 14, § 9; 1998, ch. 743, § 3; 2002, ch. 19, § 10.