When a liquidating stock company intends to file the petition referred to in Article 545, paragraph (1), it must make a prima facie showing with regard to the fact that serves as the cause thereof.
清算株式会社は、第五百四十五条第一項の申立てをするときは、その原因となる事実を疎明しなければならない。
A ruling evaluating the subject officer's liability (meaning the ruling evaluating the subject officer's liability prescribed in Article 545, paragraph (1); hereinafter the same applies in this Article) and a ruling to dismiss the petition referred to in the preceding paragraph must append the reason therefor.
役員等責任査定決定（第五百四十五条第一項に規定する役員等責任査定決定をいう。以下この条において同じ。）及び前項の申立てを却下する決定には、理由を付さなければならない。
The court must, when making the judicial decision prescribed in the preceding paragraph, hear statements from the subject officers (meaning the subject officers prescribed in Article 542, paragraph (1)).
裁判所は、前項に規定する裁判をする場合には、対象役員等（第五百四十二条第一項に規定する対象役員等をいう。）の陳述を聴かなければならない。
Changes by (Act No. 53 of 2023)
If a ruling evaluating the subject officers' liability is made, the written judgment thereof must be served on the parties.
役員等責任査定決定があった場合には、その裁判書を当事者に送達しなければならない。
When the action referred to in Article 858, paragraph (1) is not filed within the period referred to in that paragraph or is dismissed, the ruling evaluating the subject officers' liability has the same effect as a final and binding judgment ordering performance.
第八百五十八条第一項の訴えが、同項の期間内に提起されなかったとき、又は却下されたときは、役員等責任査定決定は、給付を命ずる確定判決と同一の効力を有する。
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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)
subject officers
「対象役員等」
The incorporators, directors and company auditors at incorporation, officers, etc. and liquidators of a stock company in special liquidation, whose assets the court may freeze and whose liability for damages it may assess.
Short name set inArticle 542, paragraph (1)· applies only in this subsection
ruling evaluating subject officers' liability
「役員等責任査定決定」
A court ruling in special liquidation that assesses the damages a stock company in liquidation may claim from its incorporators, officers or liquidators for their liability.
Defined inArticle 899, paragraph (2)· applies only in this article
service
送達
The delivery of a document in a court proceeding, such as a lawsuit, to the person it is for, by a procedure the law lays down: unless a provision says otherwise, the court carries it out of its own motion, the court clerk handles the work (Code of Civil Procedure, Article 98), and the person who effects it reports on it to the court in writing (Article 100, paragraph (1)); the complaint must be served on the defendant (Article 138, paragraph (1)), and the judgment on the parties (Article 255, paragraph (1)). A document is served by post or by a court enforcement officer (執行官) (Article 101, paragraph (1)), as a rule by handing it to the person (Article 102-2), at their address, residence, place of business or office, or at their workplace where those are unknown or service there meets an obstacle (Article 103); each party, legal representative and litigation representative (訴訟代理人) must tell the court a place in Japan where they are to be served (Article 104, paragraph (1)), and service abroad is made at the presiding judge's request to that country's authorities or to a Japanese ambassador, minister or consul there (Article 108). If the person is not found at a place other than their workplace, the document may be handed to an employee or a person living with them who can be trusted to receive it, and if it is refused without a legitimate reason it may be left there (Article 106, paragraphs (1) and (3)); where it cannot be served in those ways, the court clerk may send it by registered mail, and it counts as served when it is sent (Article 107, paragraphs (1) and (3)). An electronic record can also be served through the courts' electronic system on a person who has registered for it, by making it available to them and sending them a notice, and that service takes effect when they view it or save it to their computer, or one week after the notice was sent, whichever comes first (Articles 109-2, paragraph (1), and 109-3, paragraph (1)); a person who must make filings online, such as a litigation representative (訴訟代理人) entrusted with the case, can be served this way even without registering, and without a notice, the week then running from when the record was made available (Articles 109-4 and 132-11, paragraph (1)). Where a party's address or other place for service is unknown, among other cases, the court clerk may serve by publication (公示送達), on petition or where the court orders it, and serves the same party by publication again of the clerk's own motion, as a rule (Article 110, paragraphs (1) to (3)): that the clerk holds the document and will hand it over at any time is made available for anyone to view, by a method the Supreme Court's rules (最高裁判所規則) set, and posted on the court's notice board or shown on a screen at the court (Article 111), and service takes effect two weeks after that begins, or six weeks for service to be made abroad, though one made again of the clerk's own motion takes effect the day after it begins (Article 112, paragraphs (1) and (2)). Some time limits run from service: an appeal to the court of second instance (控訴), for one, must be filed within two weeks of the day the judgment is served (Article 285).
Written by AI using Code of Civil Procedure, Arts. 98, 100 to 104, 106 to 112, 132-11, 138, 255, 285 as a reference.