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PARTNERSHIP ACT 1895 - SECT 18

18 .         Misapplication of money or property

        (1)         Where any money or property of a third person is received by one partner, acting within the scope of his real or apparent authority in the partnership affairs, and is misapplied by that partner, and where any money or property of a third person, being as such in the custody of the firm, is misapplied by any partner, the firm shall be liable to make good the loss.

        (2)         For the purposes of this section, money shall be deemed to be in the custody of the firm when it has been paid to any agent of the firm, or paid or credited to the account of the firm with any person in the ordinary course of business.



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