Every partner is an agent of the firm and his or her other partners for the purpose of the business of the partnership; and the acts of every partner who does any act for carrying on in the usual way business of the kind carried on by the firm of which he or she is a member bind the firm and his or her partners, unless the partner so acting has in fact no authority to act for the firm in the particular matter, and the person with whom he or she is dealing either knows that he or she has no authority, or does not know or believe him or her to be a partner.