joint adventure

joint adventure
The relationship created when two or more persons combine in a joint business enterprise for their mutual benefit with the understanding that they are to share in the profits or losses and that each is to have voice in its management. Chisholm v Gilmer (CA4 Va) 81 F2d 120, affd 299 US 99, 81 L Ed 63, 57 S Ct 65, reh den 299 US 623, 81 L Ed 458, 57 S Ct 229. An association of persons in a single business enterprise for profit, for which purpose they combine their property, money, effects, skill, and knowledge, without forming a partnership or corporation. Summers v Hoffman, 341 Mich 686, 69 NW2d 198, 48 ALR2d 1033; Brooks v Brooks, 357 Mo 343, 208 SW2d 279, 4 ALR2d 826. More precisely, an association of persons with intent, by way of contract, express or implied, to engage in and carry out a single business adventure for joint profit, for which purpose they combine their efforts, property, money, skill, and knowledge, but without creating a partnership in the legal or technical sense of the term, or a corporation, and they agree that there shall be a community of interest among them as to the purpose of the undertaking, and that each coadventurer shall stand in the relation of principal, as well as agent, as to each of the other coadventurers, with an equal right of control of the means employed to carry out the common purpose of the adventure. 30 Am J Rev ed Jut Adv § 2. See joint enterprise.

Ballentine's law dictionary. . 1998.

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