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Policy Watch: A Milestone in Legal Development: China Promulgates a Civil Code
ant to the Civil Code.
The Civil Code, Article 972, provides for sharing profits
and losses. Article 973 provides for debt obligations.
Article 974 regulates the transfer of shares of partner-
ship property. Article 975 provides restrictions on the
exercise of the right of subrogation by creditors. The
said Articles respectively correspond to Articles 30, 38,
39, 40 and 41 in the Partnership Law, which are ex-
tended to all partnerships in the partnership system.
The previous General Principles of Civil Law did not
specify how to deal with the expiration of the partner-
ship. The Partnership Law, Article 46 provides that
??here the term of partnership is not specified in a
partnership agreement, a partner may withdraw from
the partnership by an advance 30-day notice to other
partners, provided that its withdrawal will not cause
adverse effect on the operation of the partnership af-
fairs.?? If there is no agreement on the term of the part-
nership, or the term of the partnership is undefined, it
shall be deemed as a partnership at will, and a partner
shall be granted the right to terminate the contract;
however, the partner shall notify the other partners of
its termination of a contract of partnership at will, at
a reasonable time in advance39. These provisions in the
Civil Code are similar to those in the Swiss Code of Ob-
ligations and the ??ivil Law?? of Taiwan.
2. Personality Rights
The system of personality rights is composed as a sepa-
rate chapter, Chapter Four in the Civil Code, which
is new. Chapter Four, regarding personality rights,
consists of 6 subchapters and 51 articles. This Chapter
provides for the type, content, boundary and protec-
tion of the personality rights of civil subjects from the
perspective of civil law, and has full regulations on pro-
tection of specific personality rights and interests such
as rights to life, rights to body, rights to health, rights
to name, portrait rights, rights to reputation, rights to
may raise objections to the affairs executed by other partners. When
raising objections, the execution of such affairs shall be suspended. If
any dispute arises, a decision shall be made in accordance with Article
30 of this Law. Where a partner entrusted to execute the partnership af-
fairs fails to execute according to the partnership agreement or decision
of all partners, the other partners may decide to revoke the entrustment.
39 Civil Code, Article 976
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