An Action to enforce liability is under the exclusive jurisdiction of the district court having jurisdiction over the location of the head office of the stock company or of the wholly owned subsidiary company resulting from a share exchange, etc. (hereinafter referred to as a "stock company, etc." in this Section).
責任追及等の訴えは、株式会社又は株式交換等完全子会社（以下この節において「株式会社等」という。）の本店の所在地を管轄する地方裁判所の管轄に専属する。
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action to enforce liability
「責任追及等の訴え」
A lawsuit to enforce the liability of a stock company's incorporators, officers, etc. or liquidators, or to recover certain payments owed to the company, which a shareholder may demand the company bring and may bring on its behalf if it does not.
Short name set inArticle 847, paragraph (1)· applies only in this section
wholly owned subsidiary company resulting from the share exchange, etc.machine translation
「株式交換等完全子会社」
A stock company that certain former shareholders (旧株主) may still ask, under Article 847-2, to file an action to enforce the liability of its officers and others for causes that arose before the change: the company itself, where its share exchange or share transfer gave those shareholders shares of its wholly owning parent company that they still hold, or the stock company that survived an absorption-type merger in which their company disappeared, where they received and still hold shares of the survivor's wholly owning parent company.
Short name set inArticle 847-2, paragraph (1)· applies only in this section
stock company, etc.
「株式会社等」
The stock company, or wholly owned subsidiary company resulting from the share exchange, etc., on whose behalf an action to enforce the liability of its officers is brought.
Short name set inArticle 848, paragraph (1)· applies only in this section