358.060.  Partnership defined. — 1.  A "partnership" is an association of two or more persons to carry on as co-owners a business for profit and includes, for all purposes of the laws of this state, a registered limited liability partnership.

  2.  But any association formed under any other statute of this state, or any statute adopted by authority, other than the authority of this state or pursuant to an agreement governed by the laws of another state, is not a partnership under this chapter, unless such association would have been a partnership in this state prior to the adoption of this chapter; but this chapter shall apply to limited partnerships except insofar as the statutes relating to such partnerships are inconsistent herewith.