# 商法 / Commercial Code — 第十八条の二 (Article 18-2) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-18-2. Every law, and how to address a provision: https://japanlaw.org/llms.txt. The same laws as MCP tools (no sign-in): https://japanlaw.org/mcp. - Law: 商法 (Commercial Code), 明治三十二年法律第四十八号 - English title "Commercial Code": Ministry of Justice translation - Kind: Act — the distinction between 法律 (Act), 政令 (Cabinet Order), 省令 (Ministerial Order) and 条例 (local ordinance) decides who may issue it and what it may say. - Provision: 第十八条の二 (Article 18-2)（詐害営業譲渡に係る譲受人に対する債務の履行の請求） — address `art-18-2` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-18-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-18-2 - Every provision below carries its address and both URLs on the line under it. - Japanese text: e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁). English: as marked on each line below. Only the Japanese as published by the government has legal effect; the text below is a copy of it. Every English rendering below is a translation and says which kind: the Ministry of Justice's translation, or this site's machine translation, whose model and date the Sources list names. They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第十八条の二（詐害営業譲渡に係る譲受人に対する債務の履行の請求） — (Demand for Transferee Involved in Fraudulent Business Transfer to Perform Obligations) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-18-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-18-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-18-2 **第一項** 譲渡人が譲受人に承継されない債務の債権者（以下この条において「残存債権者」という。）を害することを知って営業を譲渡した場合には、残存債権者は、その譲受人に対して、承継した財産の価額を限度として、当該債務の履行を請求することができる。ただし、その譲受人が営業の譲渡の効力が生じた時において残存債権者を害することを知らなかったときは、この限りでない。 art-18-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-18-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-18-2/par-1 If a transferor transfers business knowing that this will harm the obligee of an obligation not assumed by the transferee (hereinafter referred to as a "person that remains the obligee" of the transferor in this Article), the person that remains the obligee of the transferor may demand that the transferee perform that obligation, up to the value of the assets to which the transferee has succeeded; provided, however, that this does not apply if the transferee, at the time the business transfer becomes effective, is unaware that the transfer will harm the persons that remain the obligees of the transferor. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 譲受人が前項の規定により同項の債務を履行する責任を負う場合には、当該責任は、譲渡人が残存債権者を害することを知って営業を譲渡したことを知った時から二年以内に請求又は請求の予告をしない残存債権者に対しては、その期間を経過した時に消滅する。営業の譲渡の効力が生じた日から十年を経過したときも、同様とする。 art-18-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-18-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-18-2/par-2 If a transferee is liable to perform the obligations referred to in the preceding paragraph pursuant to the provisions of that paragraph, its liability towards a person that remains the obligee of the transferor but that fails to demand performance of the obligation or give advance notice of its claim within the two years after the day on which it learns that the transferor has transferred the business with the knowledge that it harms the persons that remain its obligees is extinguished once those two years have passed. The same applies once ten years have passed since the day on which the business transfer becomes effective. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 譲渡人について破産手続開始の決定又は再生手続開始の決定があったときは、残存債権者は、譲受人に対して第一項の規定による請求をする権利を行使することができない。 art-18-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-18-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-18-2/par-3 A person that remains the obligee of the transferor may not exercise the right to a claim against the transferee pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) if an order commencing bankruptcy proceedings or order commencing rehabilitation proceedings involving the transferor has been issued. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-18-2/par-1: この条 → 商法 第十八条の二 (Article 18-2), art-18-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-18-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-18-2 - art-18-2/par-2: 前項 → 商法 第十八条の二第一項 (Article 18-2, paragraph (1)), art-18-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-18-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-18-2/par-1 - art-18-2/par-3: 第一項 → 商法 第十八条の二第一項 (Article 18-2, paragraph (1)), art-18-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-18-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-18-2/par-1 ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 会社法 第二十四条第一項（商人との間での事業の譲渡又は譲受け） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-24/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-24/par-1 - 商法 第十八条の二第一項（詐害営業譲渡に係る譲受人に対する債務の履行の請求） — https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-18-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-18-2/par-1 - 商法 第十八条の二第二項（詐害営業譲渡に係る譲受人に対する債務の履行の請求） — https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-18-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-18-2/par-2 - 商法 第十八条の二第三項（詐害営業譲渡に係る譲受人に対する債務の履行の請求） — https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-18-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-18-2/par-3 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 商法 — the text in force from 2026-06-24 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/132AC0000000048/20260624_508AC0000000046), retrieved 2026-11-05 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Commercial Code — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4293/tb), retrieved 2026-11-05 - This site's parser, version 224 — 商法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-05