No limited partnership shall be deemed to have been formed until the certificate required under Code Section 14-9A-113 shall have been made, acknowledged, filed, and recorded, nor until an affidavit shall have been filed as directed by Code Section 14-9A-116; and if any false statement shall be made in such certificate or affidavit, or if such partnership business shall be commenced before such certificate or affidavit is filed, all the persons interested in such partnership shall be liable for all the engagements thereof as general partners.
(Laws 1837, Cobb's 1851 Digest, p. 586; Code 1863, § 1929; Code 1868, § 1917; Code 1873, § 1927; Code 1882, § 1927; Civil Code 1895, § 2669; Civil Code 1910, § 3198; Code 1933, § 75-408; Code 1981, §14-9-118; Code 1981, §14-9A-118, as redesignated by Ga. L. 1988, p. 1016, § 1.)