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(b) Jointly for all other debts and obligations of the partnership;
but any partner may enter into a separate obligation to perform a part-
nership contract.

An. Code, sec. 16. 1916, ch. 175, sec. 16.

16. (PARTNER BY ESTOPPEL.) (1) When a person, by words spoken
or written or by conduct, represents himself, or consents to another repre-
senting him to anyone, as a partner in an existing partnership or with one
or more persons not actually partners, he is liable to any such person to
whom such representation has been made, who has, on the faith of such
representation, given credit to the actual or apparent partnership, and if
he has made such representation or consented to its being made in a pub-
lic manner he is liable to such person, whether the representation has or
has not been made or communicated to such person so giving credit by or
with the knowledge of the apparent partner making the representation or
consenting to its being made.

(a) When a partnership liability results, he is liable as though he were
an actual member of the partnership.

(b) When no partnership liability results, he is liable jointly with the
other persons, if any, so consenting to the contract or representation as
to incur liability, otherwise separately.

(2) When a person has thus been represented to be a partner in an
existing partnership, or with one or more persons not actual partners, he
is an agent of the persons consenting to such representation to bind them
to the same extent and in the same manner as though he were a partner in
fact, with respect to persons who rely upon the representation. Where all
the members of the existing partnership consent to the representation, a
partnership act or obligation results; but in all other cases it is the joint act
or obligation of the person acting and the persons consenting to the repre-
sentation.

In view of terms of certain agreements and of other evidence, defendant held
himself out as a partner, and hence it was immaterial that he did not have relation-
ship to business which agreements represented. Blaustein v. Oldfield, 135 Md. 169.

An. Code, sec. 17. 1916, ch. 175, sec. 17.

17. (LIABILITY OF INCOMING PARTNER.) A person admitted as a
partner into an existing partnership is liable for all the obligations of the
partnership arising before his admission as though he had been a partner
when such obligations were incurred, except that this liability shall be
satisfied only out of partnership property.

PART IV.
Relation of Partners to One Another.

An. Code, sec. 18. 1916, ch. 175, sec.-18.

18. (RULES DETERMINING RIGHTS AND DUTIES OF PARTNERS.) The
rights and duties of the partners in relation to the partnership shall be
determined, subject to any agreement between them, by the following
rules: