Where a joint venturer's excess drawings are treated as creating a debt in judicial accounting proceedings, the joint venturer's partners cannot subsequently assert a proprietary tracing claim over the same funds. The election to treat drawings as loans passes beneficial title and merges any alternative proprietary claim in the judgment. This extends to claims against third parties (including a joint venturer's spouse) where the tracing claim can only be established through the party whose rights have already been determined.
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