{"data":{"id":"us-mo/mo.-rev.-stat.-358.070","jurisdiction":"us-mo","citation":"Mo. Rev. Stat. § 358.070","heading":"Rules for determining the existence of a partnership.","body":"In determining whether a partnership exists, these rules shall apply:\n(1) Except as provided by section 358.160 persons who are not partners as to each other are not partners as to third persons;\n(2) Joint tenancy, tenancy in common, tenancy by the entireties, joint property, common property, or part ownership does not of itself establish a partnership, whether such co-owners do or do not share any profits made by the use of the property;\n(3) The sharing of gross returns does not of itself establish a partnership, whether or not the persons sharing them have a joint or common right or interest in any property from which the returns are derived;\n(4) The receipt by a person of a share of the profits of a business is prima facie evidence that he is a partner in the business, but no such inference shall be drawn if such profits were received in payment:\n(a) As a debt by installments or otherwise;\n(b) As wages of an employee or rent to a landlord;\n(c) As an annuity to a widow or representative of a deceased partner;\n(d) As interest on a loan, though the amount of payment vary with the profits of the business;\n(e) As the consideration for the sale of a goodwill of a business or other property by installments or otherwise.","path":["Title XXIII - CORPORATIONS, ASSOCIATIONS AND PARTNERSHIPS","Chapter 358 - Uniform Partnership Law"],"source_url":"https://revisor.mo.gov/main/OneSection.aspx?section=358.070","current_through":"2026 legislative session (floor)","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-03T22:23:27Z","sha256":"33140bda97dc7e5447b5afeb9b9e93fe0cfd94569ac372d198e7fdc05da73974","source_id":"us-mo","stale":false,"prev":"us-mo/mo.-rev.-stat.-358.065","next":"us-mo/mo.-rev.-stat.-358.080"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}