R.I. Gen. Laws § 7-12-7

Current through 2024 Public Law 457

Section 7-12-7 - Insolvency or absconding of partner

A composition or compromise in no way affects the right of the other copartners or any of them to call on the person making the compromise for any sum beyond the person's original portion of the debt, if in consequence of the insolvency, inability to pay or absconding of any one of the copartners, the person so compromising becomes liable to pay more than his or her proportion of the debt.

G.L. 1896, ch. 156, § 6; G.L. 1909, ch. 185, § 6; G.L. 1923, ch. 212, §6; G.L. 1938, ch. 428, § 6; G.L. 1956, § 7-12-7.