Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Partnership Act 1958 - SECT 24

Partnership property

24. Partnership property



(1) All property and rights and interests in property originally brought into
the partnership stock or acquired whether by purchase or otherwise on account
of the firm or for the purposes and in the course of the partnership business
are called in this Act partnership property and must be held and applied by
the partners exclusively for the purposes of the partnership and in accordance
with the partnership agreement.

(2) The legal estate or interest in any land which belongs to the partnership
shall devolve according to the nature and tenure thereof and the general rules
of law thereto applicable but in trust so far as necessary for the persons
beneficially interested in the land under this section.

(3) Where co-owners of an estate or interest in any land not being itself
partnership property are partners as to profits made by the use of that land
or estate, and purchase other land or estate out of the profits to be used in
like manner, the land or estate so purchased belongs to them in the absence of
an agreement to the contrary not as partners but as co-owners for the same
respective estates and interests as are held by them in the land or estate
first mentioned at the date of the purchase.