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copartner :: legal definition


Copartner - n. one who is a member of a partnership. The prefix "co" is a redundancy, since a partner is a member of a partnership. The same is true of the term "copartnership."

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limited partnership :: n. a special type of partnership which is very com ... mited liability partner partnership

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