Rule 2126.Definitions.

The partnership chapter begins by fixing its scope. A “partnership” is a general or limited partnership, including one that is also a registered limited liability partnership or an electing partnership. It does not include a limited liability company, an unincorporated association, a joint stock company or a similar association. A “partner” is only a general partner, or a limited partner who has become subject to the liability of a general partner.

Two more terms shape the rules that follow. The “firm name” is any name, fictitious or otherwise, by which a partnership conducts business or is commonly known, whether or not it has been filed or registered. A “liquidator” is anyone legally engaged in winding up a dissolved partnership’s affairs. “Action” means any civil action or proceeding brought in or appealed to any court subject to these rules.

The exclusions send other entities elsewhere: unincorporated associations to the chapter that begins at Rule 2151, and limited liability companies and joint stock companies to the corporations chapter, whose definition in Rule 2176 names both.