# 会社法 / Companies Act — 第五百七十八条 (Article 578) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-578. 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: 第五百七十八条 (Article 578)（合同会社の設立時の出資の履行） — address `art-578` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-578 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-578 - 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. --- ### 第五百七十八条（合同会社の設立時の出資の履行） — (Performance of Contributions as at Incorporation of Limited Liability Companies) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-578 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-578 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-578 **第一項** 設立しようとする持分会社が合同会社である場合には、当該合同会社の社員になろうとする者は、定款の作成後、合同会社の設立の登記をする時までに、その出資に係る金銭の全額を払い込み、又はその出資に係る金銭以外の財産の全部を給付しなければならない。ただし、合同会社の社員になろうとする者全員の同意があるときは、登記、登録その他権利の設定又は移転を第三者に対抗するために必要な行為は、合同会社の成立後にすることを妨げない。 art-578/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-578/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-578/par-1 If a membership company to be incorporated is a limited liability company, persons who intend to be members of relevant limited liability company must pay in the entire sum of monies relating to their partnership contribution or deliver the entire property, other than monies, relating to their contribution after the preparation of the articles of incorporation but before the registration of the incorporation of the limited liability company; provided, however, that, if the consent of all persons who intend to be members of the limited liability company is obtained, this does not preclude them from carrying out registration, recording or other acts necessary to assert the creation or transfer of rights against third parties after the incorporation of the limited liability company. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 会社法 第八百十六条第一項（持分会社の設立の特則） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-816/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-816/par-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 223 — 会社法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-09-17