{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/partnership-act-1890/section-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/partnership-act-1890/section-4.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/53-54/39",
  "legislation_title": "Partnership Act 1890",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/partnership-act-1890",
  "path": "section/4",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Meaning of firm.",
  "text": "(1) Persons who have entered into partnership with one another are for the purposes of this Act called collectively a firm, and the name under which their business is carried on is called the firm-name.\n(2) In Scotland a firm is a legal person distinct from the partners of whom it is composed, but an individual partner may be charged on a decree or diligence directed against the firm, and on payment of the debts is entitled to reliefpro ratâfrom the firm and its other members.\n(3) In relation to a limited partnership registered under the Limited Partnerships Act 1907, subsection (2) applies only if the limited partnership was registered by the registrar for Scotland.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 4(3) inserted (26.10.2023 for specified purposes) by Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (c. 56), ss. 150, 219(1)(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 4(2) excluded by Agricultural Holdings (Amendment) (Scotland) Act 1983 (c. 46, SIF 2:3), s. 1(3), Sch. 1 para. 3(b) and by Capital Transfer Tax Act 1984 (c. 51, SIF 65), s.119(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "S. 4(2) excluded (S.) (25.9.1991) by Agricultural Holdings (Scotland) Act 1991 (c. 55, SIF 2:3), ss. 25(5), 89(2), Sch. 2 Pt. III, para. 3(b) (with s. 45(3), Sch. 12 para. 3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/53-54/39/section/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:34:01.180393+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}