# 会社法 / Companies Act — 第二十三条 (Article 23) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-23. 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: 第二十三条 (Article 23)（譲受会社による債務の引受け） — address `art-23` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-23 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-23 - 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. --- ### 第二十三条（譲受会社による債務の引受け） — (Assumption of Obligations by Transferee Company) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-23 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-23 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-23 **第一項** 譲受会社が譲渡会社の商号を引き続き使用しない場合においても、譲渡会社の事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、譲渡会社の債権者は、その譲受会社に対して弁済の請求をすることができる。 art-23/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-23/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-23/par-1 Even if a transferee company does not continue to use the trade name of the transferor company, if it advertises to the effect that it will assume the obligations that have arisen from the business of the transferor company, the obligees of the transferor company may demand the performance against the transferee company. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 譲受会社が前項の規定により譲渡会社の債務を弁済する責任を負う場合には、譲渡会社の責任は、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-23/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-23/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-23/par-2 If the transferee company is liable for the performance of the obligations of the transferor company pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the liability of the transferor company is extinguished upon lapse of two years after the day of the advertisement under that paragraph regarding any obligee who does not demand the performance, or does not give an advance notice of the demand, within that period. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-23/par-2: 前項 → 会社法 第二十三条第一項 (Article 23, paragraph (1)), art-23/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-23/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-23/par-1 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 会社法 第二十三条第二項（譲受会社による債務の引受け） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-23/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-23/par-2 - 会社法 第二十四条第二項（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-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-24/par-2 --- ## 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