Article 212Liabilities of Persons Who Subscribed for Shares with Unfair Amount to Be Paid in
第二百十二条（不公正な払込金額で株式を引き受けた者等の責任）
In the cases set forth in the following items, subscribers for shares for subscription are liable to a stock company for payment of the amount provided for in relevant items:
募集株式の引受人は、次の各号に掲げる場合には、株式会社に対し、当該各号に定める額を支払う義務を負う。
if the subscriber subscribed for the shares for subscription at an amount to be paid in that is extremely unfair, in collusion with directors (or directors or executive officers for a company with nominating committee, etc.):the amount equivalent to the difference between the amount to be paid in and the fair value of the shares for subscription;
取締役（指名委員会等設置会社にあっては、取締役又は執行役）と通じて著しく不公正な払込金額で募集株式を引き受けた場合 当該払込金額と当該募集株式の公正な価額との差額に相当する金額
if the value of the property contributed in kind that the subscriber tendered when the subscriber became a shareholder of the shares for subscription pursuant to the provisions of Article 209, paragraph (1) is extremely short of the value provided for under Article 199, paragraph (1), item (iii) with respect to the property contributed in kind:the amount of relevant shortfall.
第二百九条第一項の規定により募集株式の株主となった時におけるその給付した現物出資財産の価額がこれについて定められた第百九十九条第一項第三号の価額に著しく不足する場合 当該不足額
In the cases provided for in item (ii) of the preceding paragraph, if the subscriber for shares for subscription who tendered the property contributed in kind has acted in good faith and without gross negligence as to the fact that the value of the property contributed in kind is extremely short of the value prescribed under Article 199, paragraph (1), item (iii) with respect to the property contributed in kind, the relevant subscriber may rescind the manifestation of intention relating to applications for subscription for shares for subscription or relating to the contract provided for in Article 205, paragraph (1).
前項第二号に掲げる場合において、現物出資財産を給付した募集株式の引受人が当該現物出資財産の価額がこれについて定められた第百九十九条第一項第三号の価額に著しく不足することにつき善意でかつ重大な過失がないときは、募集株式の引受けの申込み又は第二百五条第一項の契約に係る意思表示を取り消すことができる。
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(Determination of Subscription Requirements)
if property other than monies will be the subject of the contribution, a statement to that effect and the description and value of relevant property;
金銭以外の財産を出資の目的とするときは、その旨並びに当該財産の内容及び価額
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The provisions of the preceding two Articles do not apply if a person who intends to subscribe for shares for subscription executes a contract for subscription for the total number of those shares.
前二条の規定は、募集株式を引き受けようとする者がその総数の引受けを行う契約を締結する場合には、適用しない。
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In the cases set forth in the following items, a subscriber for shares for subscription becomes the shareholder of the shares for subscription for which the subscriber effects the performance of…
募集株式の引受人は、次の各号に掲げる場合には、当該各号に定める日に、出資の履行をした募集株式の株主となる。
Open this provision(Liabilities of Persons Who Subscribed for Shares with Unfair Amount to Be Paid in)
if the value of the property contributed in kind that the subscriber tendered when the subscriber became a shareholder of the shares for subscription pursuant to the provisions of Article 209…
第二百九条第一項の規定により募集株式の株主となった時におけるその給付した現物出資財産の価額がこれについて定められた第百九十九条第一項第三号の価額に著しく不足する場合 当該不足額
Open this provisioncompany with nominating committee, etc.machine translation
「指名委員会等設置会社」
A stock company with a nominating committee, an audit committee and a remuneration committee, each made up of directors.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (xii)· applies throughout the law
shares for subscription
「募集株式」
Shares, newly issued or held by the company itself, that a stock company allots to the persons who applied for them in response to its invitation to subscribe.
Defined inArticle 199, paragraph (1)· applies only in this section
property contributed in kind
「現物出資財産」
Property other than money that subscribers for shares for subscription contribute in place of money, as the subscription requirements provide, whose value the company must generally have checked by an inspector (検査役) the court appoints.
Short name set inArticle 207, paragraph (1)· applies only in this section
director
取締役
An officer of a stock company, elected by the shareholders meeting (Companies Act, Article 329, paragraph (1)). Every stock company has at least one (Article 326, paragraph (1)). Where there is no board of directors, the directors run the company's business unless the articles of incorporation say otherwise (Article 348, paragraph (1)), and each of them represents it unless the company has chosen representative directors (代表取締役) or others to do that (Article 349, paragraphs (1) and (3)). Where there is a board (取締役会, board of directors), the directors are its members, and the board decides the business and normally chooses the representative directors from among them (Article 362). The term normally runs to the annual shareholders meeting for the last business year ending within two years of election (Article 332, paragraph (1)).
Written by AI using Companies Act, Arts. 326, 329, 332, 348, 349, 362 as a reference.
manifestation of intention
意思表示
A person's expression of an intention to which the law gives a legal effect, such as an offer to conclude a contract, which shows its terms and forms the contract once the other party accepts it (Civil Code, Article 522, paragraph (1)), the acceptance itself (Article 527), or the notice to the other party by which a party rescinds (取消し) an act or cancels (解除) a contract (Articles 123 and 540, paragraph (1)). One made to another person takes effect when notice of it reaches that person, or when it would normally have reached them if they blocked it without good reason (Article 97, paragraphs (1) and (2)), and does not lose its effect because the person who made it dies, loses mental capacity (意思能力) or comes under legal limits on what they can do alone after sending the notice (Article 97, paragraph (3)); where the person making it cannot find out who the other party is or where they are, it can be made by public notice (Article 98, paragraph (1)). It is not void just because the person making it knew it was not their true intention, unless the other party knew or could have known that (Article 93, paragraph (1)); a false one made in collusion with the other party is void (Article 94, paragraph (1)); and neither voidness can be asserted against a third party who did not know of it (善意) (Articles 93, paragraph (2), and 94, paragraph (2)). One based on a mistake that is material in light of the purpose of the juridical act (法律行為) and accepted views in dealings may be rescinded — one based on a mistaken view of the circumstances behind the act only if it had been shown that the act was based on them, and as a rule not where the mistake came from the gross negligence of the person who made it (Article 95, paragraphs (1) to (3)) — and so may one made under fraud or duress, though one induced by a third party's fraud only if the other party knew of the fraud or could have known of it (Article 96, paragraphs (1) and (2)); a rescission for mistake or fraud cannot be relied on against a third party who did not know and was not careless in not knowing (Article 95, paragraph (4), and Article 96, paragraph (3)). One that an agent makes within the agent's authority, showing that it is made for the principal, takes effect directly for the principal (Article 99, paragraph (1)). The Consumer Contract Act lets a consumer rescind an offer or acceptance of a consumer contract made because the business, when soliciting it, told them something untrue about an important matter and they believed it, among other grounds (Consumer Contract Act, Article 4, paragraph (1), item (i)), and the Act on Specified Commercial Transactions does the same where, in a door-to-door sale, the seller or service provider told them something untrue about such matters as the goods or the price (Article 6, paragraph (1), and Article 9-3, paragraph (1), item (i)).
Written by AI using Civil Code, Arts. 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 123, 522, 527, 540, Consumer Contract Act, Art. 4 and Act on Specified Commercial Transactions, Arts. 6, 9-3 as a reference.
rescission
取消し
Undoing a legal act, such as an offer or acceptance of a contract (意思表示, a manifestation of intention), that the law says may be rescinded: for example one made through an important mistake, though a mistake about the circumstances behind the act only if it had been made clear that they were its basis, and as a rule not where the person was grossly careless (Civil Code, Article 95), or one made under fraud or duress, though fraud by a third party only if the other party knew of it or could have known (Article 96), or one a minor made without the consent of their legal representative (Article 5, paragraph (2)). Once rescinded, the act is treated as void from the start (Article 121). Only the person who made it, their representative or successor, or someone whose consent it needed may rescind it (Article 120). The right is lost if not used within five years from when the act could be confirmed — once the mistake, fraud or other cause has ended and the person knows they can rescind (Article 124) — or twenty years from the act (Article 126). It is lost sooner if the person confirms the act, and once it could be confirmed, performing it or demanding performance without reserving objections counts as confirming it (Articles 122 and 125). The Consumer Contract Act adds grounds of its own, such as a business telling the consumer something untrue about an important matter when soliciting the contract, where the consumer believed it and made the contract because of it (Article 4, paragraph (1), item (i)), and gives most of them a shorter time: one year from when the act could be confirmed, and five years from the contract (Article 7, paragraph (1)).
Written by AI using Civil Code, Arts. 5, 95, 96, 120, 121, 122, 124, 125, 126 and Consumer Contract Act, Arts. 4, 7 as a reference.