Legal Term: LOSS,

Definition: contracts. The deprivation of something which one had, which was either advantageous, agreeable or commodious.

2. In cases of partnership, the losses are in general borne by the partners equally, unless stipulations or circumstance s manifest a different intention. Story, Partn. 24. But it is not essential that the partners should all share the losses. They may agree, that if there shall be no profits, but a loss, that the loss shall be borne by one or more of the partners exclusively, and that the others shall, inter se, be exempted from all liabilities for losses. Colly. Partn. 11; Gow, Partn. 9; 3 M. & Wels. 357; 5 Barn. & Ald. 954 Story, Partn. 23.

3. When a thing sold is lost by an accident, as by fire, the loss falls on the owner, res perit domino, and questions not unfrequently arise, as to whether the thing has been delivered and passed to the purchaser, or whether it remains still the property of the seller. See, on this subject, Delivery.

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