# 会社法 / Companies Act — 第八百六十四条 (Article 864) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-864. 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: 第八百六十四条 (Article 864)（被告） — address `art-864` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-864 - e-Gov law ID: 417AC0000000086 — never renamed. A permanent link, `/l/{lawId}/{address}` on this site, redirects to the page. - Every provision below carries its address and its URL 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. --- ### 第八百六十四条（被告） — (Defendants) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-864 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-864 **第一項** 前条第一項の訴えについては、同項各号に掲げる行為の相手方又は転得者を被告とする。 art-864/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-864/par-1 With regard to the action set forth in paragraph (1) of the preceding Article, the counterparties to the acts set forth in the items of that paragraph or the subsequent purchasers are to be the defendants. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-864/par-1: 前条第一項 → 会社法 第八百六十三条第一項 (Article 863, paragraph (1)), art-863/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-863/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 社会保険労務士法 第二十五条の二十五第二項（一般社団法人及び一般財団法人に関する法律及び会社法の準用等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-and-social-security-attorney-act/art-25-25/par-2 (e-Gov law ID 343AC1000000089) --- ## 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 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Companies Act — Ministry of Justice translation (part 2 of 2) (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4482/tb), retrieved 2026-09-17 - This site's parser, version 224 — 会社法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-09-17