Are general partners in "commercial partnerships" always traders?

Abstract

THE subject of this lecture Concerns the juridical status of those person who, in the contract of commercial partnership, are styled as "general partners". because they are held by law to guarantee without any limitation as to the amount and in and in solidum between them al the obligations entered into by the partnership to which they belong. These general partners are to be found in the partnership en nom collectif and in the partneiship enr commandite. Now, are these general partners to be considered always and under all circumstances as traders in terms of law. And, consequently, are they to benefit from and bear the consequences of all the provisions of the law enacted for and against traders? In other words, does a general partner become a trader in terms of law solely because he happens to be a general partner abstracting from the fact whether in his private individual life he actually exercises objective acts of trade in his own name? It is to this question that I propose to give an answer.