Article 880Jurisdiction over and Transfer of an Ordinary Liquidation Case after Commencement of Special Liquidation
第八百八十条（特別清算開始後の通常清算事件の管轄及び移送）
Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 868, paragraph (1), if an order to commence special liquidation is issued with regard to a liquidating stock company, a case relating to a petition under the provisions of Part II, Chapter IX, Section 1 (excluding Article 508) (referred to as an "ordinary liquidation case" in the following paragraph) relating to relevant liquidating stock company is under the jurisdiction of the district court (hereinafter referred to as the "special liquidation court" in this Section) before which the special liquidation case of relevant liquidating stock company is pending.
第八百六十八条第一項の規定にかかわらず、清算株式会社について特別清算開始の命令があったときは、当該清算株式会社についての第二編第九章第一節（第五百八条を除く。）の規定による申立てに係る事件（次項において「通常清算事件」という。）は、当該清算株式会社の特別清算事件が係属する地方裁判所（以下この節において「特別清算裁判所」という。）が管轄する。
If a special liquidation case relating to a liquidating stock company is pending before a district court other than the district court before which an ordinary liquidation case relating to the same liquidating stock company is pending and an order to commence special liquidation has been issued, if it is found reasonable for processing relevant ordinary liquidation case, the court (meaning a judge or a panel of judges handling the ordinary liquidation case) may transfer relevant ordinary liquidation case to the special liquidation court ex officio.
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liquidating stock companies
「清算株式会社」
A stock company that is being wound up, which is treated as still existing for the purposes of the liquidation until the liquidation is completed.
Short name set inArticle 476, paragraph (1)
special liquidation court
「特別清算裁判所」
The district court before which a liquidating stock company's special liquidation case is pending, which also takes over the court matters of its ordinary liquidation.
Short name set inArticle 880, paragraph (1)· applies only in this section
ordinary liquidation case
「通常清算事件」
A case on a petition under the ordinary liquidation rules in Part II, Chapter IX, Section 1 (other than Article 508) concerning a liquidating stock company, which, once the court has ordered special liquidation to commence, is heard by the district court before which the special liquidation case is pending.
Short name set inArticle 880, paragraph (1)· applies only in this provision and in Article 880, paragraph (2)