After the dissolution of a firm the authority of each partner to bind the firm, and the other mutual rights and obligations of the partners, continue notwithstanding the dissolution, so far as may be necessary to wind up the affairs of the firm and to complete transactions begun but unfinished at the time of the dissolution, but not otherwise:
Provided that the firm is in no case bound by the acts of a partner who has been adjudicated insolvent; but this proviso does not affect the liability of any person who has after the adjudication represented himself or knowingly permitted himself to be represented as a partner of the insolvent.
Provided that the firm is in no case bound by the acts of a partner who has been adjudicated insolvent; but this proviso does not affect the liability of any person who has after the adjudication represented himself or knowingly permitted himself to be represented as a partner of the insolvent.
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Section 1 · Short title, extent and commencement.Section 2 · Definitions.Section 3 · Application of provisions of Act 9 of 1872.Section 4 · Definition of “partnership”, “partner”, “firm” and “firm name”.Section 5 · Partnership not created by status.Section 6 · Mode of determining existence of partnership.Section 7 · Partnership at will.Section 8 · Particular partnership.India Code, Government of India. Text fetched 24 Oct 2026. Check the linked official text and subsequent notifications when applying a provision.