# 商法 / Commercial Code — 第五百三十三条 (Article 533) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-533. 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: 第五百三十三条 (Article 533)（残額についての利息請求権等） — address `art-533` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-533 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-533 - 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. --- ### 第五百三十三条（残額についての利息請求権等） — (Claim to Interest on Balances) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-533 · https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-533 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-533 **第一項** 相殺によって生じた残額については、債権者は、計算の閉鎖の日以後の法定利息を請求することができる。 art-533/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-533/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-533/par-1 An obligee may claim statutory interest on the balance after set-off beginning on the date of the closing of the account. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の規定は、当該相殺に係る債権及び債務の各項目を交互計算に組み入れた日からこれに利息を付することを妨げない。 art-533/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-533/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-533/par-2 The provisions of the preceding paragraph do not preclude the accrual of interest from the day on which each of the items under the claims and obligations subject to the set-off were included in the open account. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-533/par-2: 前項 → 商法 第五百三十三条第一項 (Article 533, paragraph (1)), art-533/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-533/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-533/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 商法 第五百三十三条第二項（残額についての利息請求権等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-533/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-533/par-2 --- ## 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