# 会社法 / Companies Act — 第五百一条 (Article 501) - 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: 第五百一条 (Article 501)（条件付債権等に係る債務の弁済） — address `art-501` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-501 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-501 - 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. --- ### 第五百一条（条件付債権等に係る債務の弁済） — (Performance of Obligations Relating to Conditional Claims) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-501 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-501 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-501 **第一項** 清算株式会社は、条件付債権、存続期間が不確定な債権その他その額が不確定な債権に係る債務を弁済することができる。この場合においては、これらの債権を評価させるため、裁判所に対し、鑑定人の選任の申立てをしなければならない。 art-501/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-501/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-501/par-1 A liquidating stock company may perform its obligations relating to conditional claims, claims of indeterminate duration or other claims of indeterminable amount. In these cases, a petition for the appointment of an appraiser must be filed to the court in order to have these claims evaluated. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の場合には、清算株式会社は、同項の鑑定人の評価に従い同項の債権に係る債務を弁済しなければならない。 art-501/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-501/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-501/par-2 In the cases provided for in the preceding paragraph, a liquidating stock company must perform its obligations relating to the claims under that paragraph in accordance with the evaluations by the appraiser under that paragraph. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 第一項の鑑定人の選任の手続に関する費用は、清算株式会社の負担とする。当該鑑定人による鑑定のための呼出し及び質問に関する費用についても、同様とする。 art-501/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-501/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-501/par-3 Any expense for the procedures for the appointment of the appraiser under paragraph (1) is borne by the liquidating stock company. The same applies to the expense for the summonses and questions for the purpose of the appraiser's appraisal. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-501/par-2: 前項 → 会社法 第五百一条第一項 (Article 501, paragraph (1)), art-501/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-501/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-501/par-1 - art-501/par-3: 第一項 → 会社法 第五百一条第一項 (Article 501, paragraph (1)), art-501/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-501/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-501/par-1 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 会社法 第五百一条第二項（条件付債権等に係る債務の弁済） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-501/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-501/par-2 - 会社法 第五百一条第三項（条件付債権等に係る債務の弁済） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-501/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-501/par-3 - 会社法 第八百七十四条第一項第一号（不服申立ての制限） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-874/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-874/par-1/item-1 --- ## 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 211 — 会社法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-09-17