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Choice; selection. Delectus personse. Choice of person. Delectus personarum. Choice of persons or the persons. The right to choose the person or persons who shall participate in a business or enterprise requiring the exercise of mutual confidence. In particular, the absolute right which belongs to each member of a firm to decide what new partners, if any at all, shall be admitted to the firm. In theory a partnership is a voluntary association. For this reason neither the purchaser of the interest of a member, nor his assignee, nor even his executor or heir, becomes entitled to admission Into the association, except by consent of the remaining partners or by the terms of their compact.^ 1 [4 Bl. Com. 390. a [3 Bl. Com. 387. 3 Sandford v. New York, &c. E. Co., 87 N. J. L. 4 (1874): Shore v. Wilson, 9 Clark & F. 566 (1842), Tindal, C. J. * Exp. White, L. E., 6 Ch. Ap. Cas. *403 (1870), Hellish, L. J. « [Story, Agency, § 33; 50 Barb. 395. • Crow V. Beardsley, 68 Mo. 439 (1878).