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損害賠償(そんがいばいしょう)

Compensation for loss one person has caused another. A debtor who does not perform an obligation as it should be performed, or cannot perform it, must compensate the creditor for t…

Written by AI using Civil Code, Arts. 415, 417, 420, 709, 722 and Consumer Contract Act, Art. 9 as a reference.

解除(かいじょ)

Ending a contract by one party's notice to the other, where the contract or the law gives that party a right to cancel (Civil Code, Article 540, paragraph (1)). The Civil Code lets…

Written by AI using Civil Code, Arts. 121, 540, 541, 542, 545, 620 as a reference.

compensation for damages

損害賠償(そんがいばいしょう)

Compensation for damages under the Civil Code or any other law; in the sentence of Article 64, paragraph (1) of the supplementary provisions (附則) that coins the name, it is the compensation a worker or their survivors can receive from the worker's employer or former employer, taken there only for the part that makes up for the same loss as their pension benefit (年金給付).

payment of damages or a provisional payout

損害賠償額等の支払(そんがいばいしょうがくとうのしはらい)

In Article 82-3, paragraphs (3) and (4), the payment of damages under Article 16, paragraph (1), or of a provisional payout (仮渡金) under Article 17, paragraph (1) (each including as Article 23-3, paragraph (1) applies it to mutual liability insurance (責任共済)).

compulsory automobile liability insurance

自動車損害賠償責任保険(じどうしゃそんがいばいしょうせきにんほけん)

The insurance provided for in Chapter III of the Act on Securing Compensation for Automobile Accidents (Act No. 97 of 1955).

自動車損害賠償保障法(昭和三十年法律第九十七号)第三章に規定する保険

new council on Automobile Liability Insurance

新自動車損害賠償責任保険審議会(しんじどうしゃそんがいばいしょうせきにんほけんしんぎかい)

In Article 37 of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 102 of 1999, the Council on Automobile Liability Insurance (自動車損害賠償責任保険審議会) of the Financial Services Agency (金融庁) under the Financial Reconstruction Commission (金融再生委員会), as provided in Article 35, paragraph (2) of the Act on Securing Compensation for Automobile Accidents as amended by Article 36 of those supplementary provisions; members of the earlier council of the Financial Supervisory Agency (金融監督庁) are treated as appointed to it.

nuclear insurance

原子力保険(げんしりょくほけん)

Insurance covering nuclear facilities, liability for damage from a nuclear disaster and the like, of the kinds a Cabinet Order (政令) sets.

原子力施設、原子力災害に係る損害賠償責任等を保険の目的とする保険で政令で定めるもの

amount of loss on disaster-damaged business assets

被災事業用資産の損失の金額(ひさいじぎょうようしさんのそんしつのきんがく)

The amount of loss that a disaster (災害) — an earthquake, storm or flood, fire or other disaster a Cabinet Order (政令) specifies — caused to inventory (たな卸資産), to fixed assets and similar assets used in a business producing real estate, business or timber income, or to timber, including unavoidable disaster-related spending a Cabinet Order specifies and leaving out any part made good by insurance, damages and the like, that is not a loss arising in computing fluctuating income (変動所得).

…による損失の金額(その災害に関連するやむを得ない支出で政令で定めるものの金額を含むものとし、保険金、損害賠償金その他これらに類するものにより埋められた部分の金額を除く。)で同項の変動所得の金額の計算上生じた損…

indemnity agreement

補償契約(ほしょうけいやく)

An agreement by which a stock company promises to cover all or part of an officer's costs of dealing with suspected breaches of law or claims against them, or losses from compensating third parties, whose terms must be decided by the shareholders meeting or board of directors.

第四百三十条の二第一項に規定する補償契約

ruling evaluating subject officers' liability

役員等責任査定決定(やくいんとうせきにんさていけってい)

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.

第五百四十五条第一項に規定する役員等責任査定決定

specified-disaster loss on business assets

事業資産特定災害損失額(じぎょうしさんとくていさいがいそんしつがく)

The total of a person's loss on inventory from a specified extraordinary disaster (特定非常災害) and the loss that disaster caused to fixed assets (other than land) used in their business producing business income, including certain unavoidable related costs and excluding what insurance or damages make good.

…る損失の金額(特定非常災害に関連するやむを得ない支出で政令で定めるものの金額を含むものとし、保険金、損害賠償金その他これらに類するものにより補塡される部分の金額を除く。以下この項において同じ。)の合計額

proceedings for limitation of liability of a debtor

債務者の責任制限手続(さいむしゃのせきにんせいげんてつづき)

In Article 24, paragraph (1), item (v), Article 263 and Article 264, paragraph (1), the debtor's proceedings for limitation of liability under Chapter III of the Act on Limitation of Shipowner Liability (Act No. 94 of 1975) or Chapter V of the Act on Liability for Oil Pollution Damage (Act No. 95 of 1975), or under the provisions of those two Acts that Article 43, paragraphs (5) and (6) and Article 51, paragraphs (5) and (6) of the Act on Liability for Oil Pollution Damage apply, with some exclusions.

船舶の所有者等の責任の制限に関する法律(昭和五十年法律第九十四号)第三章又は船舶油濁等損害賠償保障法(昭和五十年法律第九十五号)第五章、同法第四十三条第五項において準用する同法第三十一条及び第三…

liability insurance

責任保険(せきにんほけん)

Automobile liability insurance (自動車損害賠償責任保険) as this Act provides for it: an automobile may not be put into operation (運行) unless a contract for it, or for mutual liability insurance (責任共済), has been concluded.

mutual liability insurance

責任共済(せきにんきょうさい)

Mutual automobile liability insurance (自動車損害賠償責任共済) as this Act provides for it: an automobile may not be put into operation (運行) unless a contract for it, or for liability insurance (責任保険), has been concluded.

insurance monies, etc.

保険金等(ほけんきんとう)

In Articles 47 to 49, insurance money, mutual aid money or damages, of a kind a Cabinet Order (政令) sets, that a domestic corporation receives for the loss of or damage to a fixed asset it owns (所有固定資産).

dispute

紛争(ふんそう)

A dispute over the payment of insurance money and damages (保険金等) or of mutual insurance money and damages (共済金等), which a designated dispute resolution organization (指定紛争処理機関) helps settle.

insurance money, etc.

保険金等(ほけんきんとう)

In Articles 26 and 47, insurance money under a non-life insurance contract taken out on the common areas under Article 18(6) (including as Article 21 applies it), together with damages and money to be returned for unjust enrichment arising in respect of the common areas and co-owned grounds or attached facilities (共用部分等).

insurance proceeds and damages

保険金等(ほけんきんとう)

The insurance money an insurer (保険会社) must pay the insured, and the damages it must pay an injured party (被害者) who claims them from it under Article 16, paragraph (1) — everywhere in this Act after Article 16-2, except in Article 28-4, paragraph (1).

subordinate bankruptcy claims

劣後的破産債権(れつごてきはさんさいけん)

The claims Article 99, paragraph (1) lists — those in Article 97, items (i) to (vii), such as interest and damages for nonperformance arising after bankruptcy proceedings begin, and the parts of certain interest-free or periodic-payment claims falling due after commencement that items (ii) to (iv) calculate — which rank behind the other bankruptcy claims (破産債権) except consensually-subordinated bankruptcy claims (約定劣後破産債権).

officers' liability assessment order

役員責任査定決定(やくいんせきにんさていけってい)

In Chapter VI, Section 3 (Articles 177 to 183), the court's decision, made by order on the bankruptcy trustee's (破産管財人) petition or on its own authority, assessing a claim for damages based on the liability of the officers (役員) of a corporation that is the debtor in bankruptcy.

related claim

関連請求(かんれんせいきゅう)

A claim connected with an action for the revocation of an administrative disposition (取消訴訟): a claim for restoration or damages related to the disposition (処分) or determination (裁決), a claim to revoke another disposition that forms one procedure with it, a claim to revoke the determination on it or the disposition behind it, another claim to revoke the same disposition or determination, or any other claim related to the claim for its revocation.

subject officers

対象役員等(たいしょうやくいんとう)

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.