# 会社法 / Companies Act — 第百八十五条 (Article 185) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-185. 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: 第百八十五条 (Article 185)（株式無償割当て） — address `art-185` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-185 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-185 - 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. --- ### 第百八十五条（株式無償割当て） — (Allotment of Shares without Contribution) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-185 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-185 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-185 **第一項** 株式会社は、株主（種類株式発行会社にあっては、ある種類の種類株主）に対して新たに払込みをさせないで当該株式会社の株式の割当て（以下この款において「株式無償割当て」という。）をすることができる。 art-185/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-185/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-185/par-1 A stock company may allot the shares of that stock company to shareholders (or, for a company with class shares, shareholders of certain classes) without requiring them to make additional contribution (hereinafter in this Subsection referred to as "allotment of shares without contribution"). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 6 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 会社法 第百十六条第一項第三号ロ（反対株主の株式買取請求） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-116/par-1/item-3/sub-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-116/par-1/item-3/sub-2 - 会社法 第百五十一条第一項第六号（株式の質入れの効果） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-151/par-1/item-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-151/par-1/item-6 - 会社法 第百八十九条第二項第三号（単元未満株式についての権利の制限等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-189/par-2/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-189/par-2/item-3 - 会社法 第二百三十四条第一項第三号（一に満たない端数の処理） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-234/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-234/par-1/item-3 - 会社法 第三百二十二条第一項第三号（ある種類の種類株主に損害を及ぼすおそれがある場合の種類株主総会） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-322/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-322/par-1/item-3 - 所得税法 第二百二十八条の三第一項（株式無償割当てに関する調書） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/income-tax-act/art-228-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/340AC0000000033/art-228-3/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