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Proposed Mississippi Plain Language Model Jury Instructions - Civil 3014
Agency - Joint Venture - Responsibility of Members
A joint venture exists when two or more people combine their property, skills, or
knowledge to carry out a single business plan and agree to share the control, profits, and losses.
A joint venture can be formed by a written or oral agreement or by an agreement which is
indicated by the people’s conduct.
A joint venture and each of its members are responsible for the wrongful conduct of any
member acting within the scope of [his/her] authority.
You must decide whether a joint venture existed in this case.
History
Proposed Mississippi Plain Language Model Jury Instructions - Civil 3014 (current as of February 17, 2012). Submitted in 2012 by the Mississippi Model Jury Instructions Commission (created by the Supreme Court of Mississippi by order of December 30, 2008) and published by the Court on courts.ms.gov. The Court states that these model jury instructions have not been adopted or approved by the Supreme Court of Mississippi.
Provenance
- Source
- courts.ms.gov
- Retrieved
- 2026-09-25
- Edition
- 2026-09-25
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