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Agreement Of Limited Partnership

Effective Date: December 31, 1996
Parties:

COX Communications

Sectors: Telecommunications
Law Firms: Dow Lohnes
Governing Law:  Delaware
AGREEMENT OF LIMITED PARTNERSHIP


OF


COX COMMUNICATIONS PCS, L.P.


A Delaware LIMITED PARTNERSHIP


dated as of December 31, 1996


by and between


COX PIONEER PARTNERSHIP


AND


SPRINT SPECTRUM HOLDING COMPANY, L.P. 2
TABLE OF CONTENTS


SECTION 1. THE PARTNERSHIP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
1.1 Formation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
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1.2 Name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
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1.3 Purpose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
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1.4 Principal Executive Office . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
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1.5 Term . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
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1.6 Filings; Agent for Service of Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
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1.7 Title to Property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
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1.8 Payments of Individual Obligations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
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1.9 Independent Activities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
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1.10 Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
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1.11 Additional Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
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1.12 Terms Generally . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
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SECTION 2. PARTNERS' CAPITAL CONTRIBUTIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
2.1 Percentage Interests; Preservation of Percentages of Interests Held as General
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Partner and as Limited Partner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
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2.2 Partners' Original Capital Contributions and Interest Payments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
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2.3 Additional Capital Contributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
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2.4 Failure to Contribute Capital . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
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2.5 Partnership Funds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
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2.6 Partner Loans; Other Borrowings; Purchase of Partner Loans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
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2.7 Other Matters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
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2.8 Sale of Assets and Reimbursement of Research and Experimental Expenditures and
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Start-Up Expenditures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
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2.9 Interim Funding Loans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
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SECTION 3. ALLOCATIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
3.1 Profits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
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3.2 Losses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
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3.3 Special Allocations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
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3.4 Curative Allocations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
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3.5 Loss Limitation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
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3.6 Other Allocation Rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
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3.7 Tax Allocations: Code Section 704(c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
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3.8 Special Profits and Special Losses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
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3.9 Allocations for Financial Reporting Purposes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
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SECTION 4. PAYMENTS AND DISTRIBUTIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
4.1 Available Cash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
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4.2 Cash Distributed by LeasingCo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
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4.3 Amounts Withheld . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
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SECTION 5. MANAGEMENT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
5.1 Authority of the General Partners and the Managing Partner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
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5.2 Business Plan and Budget . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
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5.3 Employees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
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5.4 Limitation of Agency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
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5.5 Liability of Partners and Partnership Employees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
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5.6 Indemnification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
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5.7 Temporary Investments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
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SECTION 6. PARTNERSHIP OPPORTUNITIES; CONFIDENTIALITY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
6.1 Engaging in Wireless Business in the Los Angeles MTA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
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6.2 Enforceability and Enforcement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
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6.3 General Exceptions to Section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
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6.4 Freedom of Action . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
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6.5 Confidentiality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
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SECTION 7. ROLE OF EXCLUSIVE LIMITED PARTNERS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54


SECTION 8. TRANSACTIONS WITH PARTNERS; CERTAIN ADDITIONAL AGREEMENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
8.1 Transactions with Partners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
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8.2 Additional Agreements of the Partners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
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8.3 Certain Additional Agreements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
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8.4 Parent Undertaking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
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8.5 Cooperation on Transactions With Vendors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
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8.6 Holdings's Right to Investigate Qualified Pre-Operating Expenses, Research and
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Experimental Expenditures and Start-Up Expenditures; Arbitration of Disputes . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
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8.7 Management of PCS System Before License Contribution Date . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
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8.8 Product Integration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
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SECTION 9. REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
9.1 Representations and Warranties of the Partners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
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9.2 Representations and Warranties of CPP Regarding the License and the System Assets . . . . . . . . . . 66
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SECTION 10. CONDITIONS TO ORIGINAL CAPITAL CONTRIBUTION OBLIGATIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
10.1 Conditions to Each Partner's Obligation to Contribute the License . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
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10.2 Conditions to Holdings's Obligation to Contribute the Holdings License . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
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10.3 Conditions to CPP's Obligation to Make Original Capital Contribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
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10.4 Condition to Holdings's Obligation to Make Certain Cash Contributions Prior to the License
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Contribution Date . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
----------------- SECTION 11. ACCOUNTING, BOOKS AND RECORDS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
11.1 Accounting, Books and Records . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
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11.2 Reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
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11.3 Tax Returns and Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
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11.4 Proprietary Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
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SECTION 12. ADVERSE ACT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
12.1 Remedies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
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12.2 Adverse Act Purchase . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
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12.3 Net Equity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
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12.4 Gross Appraised Value . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
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12.5 Extension of Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
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SECTION 13. DISPOSITIONS OF INTERESTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
13.1 Restriction on Dispositions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
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13.2 Permitted Transfers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
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13.3 Conditions to Permitted Transfers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
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13.4 Right of First Refusal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
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13.5 Tagalong Rights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
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13.6 Put and Call Rights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
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13.7 Prohibited Dispositions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
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13.8 Representations Regarding Transfers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
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13.9 Distributions and Allocations in Respect of Transferred Interests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
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SECTION 14. CONVERSION OF INTERESTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
14.1 Conversion of Holdings Interest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
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14.2 Termination of Status as General Partner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
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14.3 Restoration of Status as General Partner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
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SECTION 15. DISSOLUTION AND WINDING UP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
15.1 Liquidating Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
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15.2 Winding Up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
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15.3 Compliance With Certain Requirements of Regulations; Deficit Capital Accounts . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
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15.4 Deemed Distribution and Recontribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
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15.5 Rights of Partners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
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15.6 Buy/Sell Arrangements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
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15.7 Notice of Dissolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
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SECTION 16. MISCELLANEOUS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
16.1 Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
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16.2 Binding Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
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16.3 Construction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
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16.4 Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
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16.5 Table of Contents; Headings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
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16.6 Severability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
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16.7 Incorporation by Reference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
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16.8 Further Action . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
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16.9 Governing Law . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
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16.10 Waiver of Action for Partition; No Bill For Partnership Accounting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
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16.11 Counterpart Execution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
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16.12 Specific Performance; Attorneys' Fees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
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16.13 Entire Agreement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
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16.14 Limitation on Rights of Others . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
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