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Practice question: Obligations of Partners to Third Persons

Multiple Choice Medium Jurisprudence

Practice question

A firm creditor and a partner’s private lender compete for partnership property. The lender says its personal judgment always has priority merely because it was first to complain. Which is best?
  1. Private complaint order always overrides the partnership rule
  2. Firm creditors can never reach firm assets
  3. Only the partner chooses creditor rank
  4. The firm name decides every priority
  5. Article 1827 gives the stated preference to partnership creditors as to firm property

Legal references

  • Civil Code, RA 386: https://elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/thebookshelf/showdocs/2/53360; Articles 1815,1826-1827.

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