28.
Holdingout.- (1) Anyone who by words
spoken or written or by conduct represent himself,
or knowingly permits himself to be represented,
to be a partner in a firm, is liable as a partner
in that firm to anyone who has on the faith
of any such representation given credit to the
firm, whether the person representing himself
or represented to be a partner does or does
not know that the representation has reached
the person so giving credit.
(2) Where after partner's
death the business continued in the old firm-name,
the continued use of that name or of the deceased
partner's name as a part thereof shall not of
itself make his legal representative or his
estate liable for any act of the firm done after
his death.
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