During the winding up of a dissolved commercial partnership, the firm's assets must be applied to discharge liabilities in a specific statutory sequence. What is the correct order of priority for settling these claims from first to last?
- 1Payment of debts and liabilities owed to external third-party creditors
- 2Repayment of loans and advances made by partners to the firm beyond capital
- 3Return of original capital contributions to individual partners
- 4Distribution of residual surplus profits among partners in their agreed profit-sharing ratio
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The correct sequence for distributing assets upon partnership dissolution is: first, paying external third-party liabilities; second, repaying partner loans and advances; third, returning partner capital contributions; and finally, distributing any remaining surplus among partners in their profit-sharing ratio.
Under partnership law, asset distribution upon winding up follows a strict statutory hierarchy: outside liabilities are paid first, followed by partner loans and advances, then partner capital refunds, and lastly the distribution of any remaining surplus in the profit-sharing ratio.
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Statutory Order of Asset Distribution upon Partnership Dissolution