# 商法 / Commercial Code — 第十八条 (Article 18) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-18. 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: 第十八条 (Article 18)（譲受人による債務の引受け） — address `art-18` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-18 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-18 - 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. --- ### 第十八条（譲受人による債務の引受け） — (Assumption of Obligations by Transferee) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-18 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-18 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-18 **第一項** 譲受人が譲渡人の商号を引き続き使用しない場合においても、譲渡人の営業によって生じた債務を引き受ける旨の広告をしたときは、譲渡人の債権者は、その譲受人に対して弁済の請求をすることができる。 art-18/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-18/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-18/par-1 Even if a transferee does not continue to use the trade name of the transferor, if the transferee advertises that it will assume the obligations arising from the business of the transferor, the obligees of the transferor may demand that the transferee perform those obligations. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 譲受人が前項の規定により譲渡人の債務を弁済する責任を負う場合には、譲渡人の責任は、同項の広告があった日後二年以内に請求又は請求の予告をしない債権者に対しては、その期間を経過した時に消滅する。 art-18/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-18/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-18/par-2 If the transferee is liable for performance of the transferor's obligations pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the transferor's liability to an obligee that fails to demand performance of the obligations or give advance notice of its claim within the two years after the day that the transferor advertises as referred to in that paragraph is extinguished once those two years have passed. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-18/par-2: 前項 → 商法 第十八条第一項 (Article 18, paragraph (1)), art-18/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-18/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-18/par-1 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 会社法 第二十四条第一項（商人との間での事業の譲渡又は譲受け） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-24/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-24/par-1 - 商法 第十八条第二項（譲受人による債務の引受け） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-18/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-18/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