Without any explicit agreement, a partner takes shared goods on a long sea voyage. The goods are lost at sea. Who bears the loss?
Halacha 2: Without prior agreement, a partner cannot take goods on a sea voyage. Deviating from customary practice makes the transgressor solely liable for any resulting loss. Any profit would still be shared.
Question 2
One partner wants to hold produce until the known seasonal peak price. The other wants to sell now. What is the rule?
Halacha 5: If there is a known seasonal selling time for this type of produce, the partner who wants to wait for it has the right to delay the sale until that time arrives.
Question 3
Bandits attack a caravan. One partner fights them off and saves the partnership's goods. To whom does the rescued merchandise belong?
Halacha 7: What is saved during a partnership attack belongs to the partnership equally. Only if the partner explicitly declares at the time that he is saving it for himself does he keep it personally.
Question 4
Custom toll collectors waived a fee for the partnership caravan 'because of Reuven.' To whom does the waived toll belong?
Halacha 7: Normally a toll waiver goes to the partnership. But when the collector specifies it was waived 'because of so and so,' that individual alone benefits from the waiver.
Question 5
One partner dies during the partnership. Does the surviving partner continue managing the partnership funds on the same terms?
Halacha 11: The death of a partner dissolves the partnership immediately, even if it was set for a fixed term. The funds transfer to the heirs' domain and the original arrangement ends.