of legal personality. Japanese law provides for Civil Code , which have no legal personality, and Commercial Code , which have full corporate personhood but otherwise function similarly to partnerships. In December 2002 the Netherlands proposed to replace their general partnership, which does not have legal personality, with a public partnership which allows the partners to opt for legal personality. In the United States, section 201 of the Revised Uniform Partnership Act (RUPA) of 1997 provides that "A partnership is an entity distinct from its partners." This is one of the more significant departures of RUPA from the 1917 Uniform Partnership Act, which does not recognize separate legal personality for partnerships; however, the degree to which this theory was actually respected varied by jurisdiction and over time. The two main consequences of allowing separate personality are that one partnership will be able to become a partner in another partnership in the same way that a registered company can, and a partnership will not be bound by the doctrine of ultra vires but will have unlimited legal capacity like any other natural person. See also Articles of partnership Investment clubs Types of business entity (listed by country) References DeMott, Deborah A. (2001). “Transatlantic Perspectives on Partnership Law: Risk and Instability”. Journal of Corporation Law, 26, 879–895. Types of business entity Legal entities Partnerships