# 会社法 / Companies Act — 第百四十七条 (Article 147) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-147. 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: 会社法 (Companies Act), 平成十七年法律第八十六号 - English title "Companies Act": 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: 第百四十七条 (Article 147)（株式の質入れの対抗要件） — address `art-147` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-147 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-147 - 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. --- ### 第百四十七条（株式の質入れの対抗要件） — (Perfection of Pledging Shares) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-147 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-147 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-147 **第一項** 株式の質入れは、その質権者の氏名又は名称及び住所を株主名簿に記載し、又は記録しなければ、株式会社その他の第三者に対抗することができない。 art-147/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-147/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-147/par-1 Pledging shares may not be perfected against the stock company and other third parties unless the names and addresses of the pledgees are stated or recorded in the shareholder register. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の規定にかかわらず、株券発行会社の株式の質権者は、継続して当該株式に係る株券を占有しなければ、その質権をもって株券発行会社その他の第三者に対抗することができない。 art-147/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-147/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-147/par-2 Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding paragraph, a pledgee of shares in a share certificate-issuing company may not assert the pledge against the stock company and other third parties unless the pledgee is in continuous possession of the share certificates representing those shares. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 民法第三百六十四条の規定は、株式については、適用しない。 art-147/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-147/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-147/par-3 The provisions of Article 364 of the Civil Code do not apply to shares. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-147/par-2: 前項 → 会社法 第百四十七条第一項 (Article 147, paragraph (1)), art-147/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-147/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-147/par-1 - art-147/par-3: 民法第三百六十四条 → 民法 第三百六十四条 (Article 364), art-364 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-364 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-364 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 会社法 第百四十七条第二項（株式の質入れの対抗要件） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-147/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-147/par-2 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 会社法 — the text in force from 2026-08-12 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/417AC0000000086/20260812_508AC0000000064), retrieved 2026-09-17 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Companies Act — Ministry of Justice translation (part 1 of 2) (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4481/tb), retrieved 2026-09-17 - This site's parser, version 223 — 会社法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-09-17