BUSINESS PARTNERSHIP
Scrooge and Marley were business partners for many years, with Scrooge being Marley's sole executor, administrator, assign, residuary legatee, friend, and mourner. The firm was known as "Scrooge and Marley," and Scrooge answered to both names.
SCROOGE
Scrooge and he were partners for I don't know how many years. Scrooge was his sole executor, his sole administrator, his sole assign, his sole residuary legatee, his sole friend, and sole mourner. ... Scrooge never painted out Old Marley's name. There it stood, years afterwards, above the warehouse door: Scrooge and Marley. The firm was known as Scrooge and Marley. Sometimes people new to the business called Scrooge Scrooge, and sometimes Marley, but he answered to both names. It was all the same to him.