Jeff Sklansky says the nineteenth century development of limited liability helped shape the modern corporation.

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If you buy stock in a company the most you can lose is the money you put up, so that's called limited liability.

如果你买了一个公司的股票,你最多只会赔掉投进去的钱,所以这叫做有限责任

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The problem with partnerships, generally, has been that they don't have limited liability.

通常合伙制企业的问题是,合伙人具有无限责任

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Yet corporations have a right that real people do not: limited liability.

VOA: special.2010.03.05

There is a general partner who takes on the liability and the limited partners, who are many, are the participants who do not share the liability.

由普通合伙人承担责任,而其他多个有限合伙人,则不需要承担责任

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The general partner takes on the liability; the limited partners don't have liability.

普通合伙人要承担责任,有限合伙人则不需要承担责任

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