{"data":{"id":"us-ma/mass.-gen.-laws-ch.-108a-6","jurisdiction":"us-ma","citation":"Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 108A, § 6","heading":"Partnership, defined; application to prior associations; limited partnerships","body":"Section 6. (1) A partnership is an association of two or more persons to carry on as co-owners a business for profit and includes, for all purposes of the laws of the commonwealth, a registered limited liability partnership.\n(2) But any association formed under any other statute of this state, or any statute adopted by authority, other than the authority of this state, is not a partnership under this chapter, unless such association would have been a partnership in this state prior to January first, nineteen hundred and twenty-three; but this chapter shall apply to limited partnerships except in so far as the statutes relating to such partnerships are inconsistent herewith.","path":["Part I","Title XV","Chapter 108A"],"source_url":"https://malegislature.gov/Laws/GeneralLaws/PartI/TitleXV/Chapter108A/Section6","current_through":"amendments passed before May 31, 2026","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-17T05:22:33Z","sha256":"b81c4978efe127c887fdb84e4453830ffd4c4bc06589e5e67a54d336707286ef","source_id":"us-ma","stale":false,"prev":"us-ma/mass.-gen.-laws-ch.-108a-5","next":"us-ma/mass.-gen.-laws-ch.-108a-7"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}