# 会社法 / Companies Act — 第四百二十四条 (Article 424) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-424. 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: 第四百二十四条 (Article 424)（株式会社に対する損害賠償責任の免除） — address `art-424` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-424 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-424 - 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. --- ### 第四百二十四条（株式会社に対する損害賠償責任の免除） — (Exemption from Liability for Damages to Stock Companies) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-424 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-424 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-424 **第一項** 前条第一項の責任は、総株主の同意がなければ、免除することができない。 art-424/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-424/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-424/par-1 An exemption from liability under paragraph (1) of the preceding Article may not be given without the consent of all shareholders. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-424/par-1: 前条第一項 → 会社法 第四百二十三条第一項 (Article 423, paragraph (1)), art-423/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-423/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-423/par-1 ## Cited by 7 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 会社法 第四百二十五条第一項（責任の一部免除） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-425/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-425/par-1 - 会社法 第四百二十六条第一項（取締役等による免除に関する定款の定め） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-426/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-426/par-1 - 会社法 第四百二十七条第一項（責任限定契約） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-427/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-427/par-1 - 会社法 第四百八十六条第四項（清算人の清算株式会社に対する損害賠償責任） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-486/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-486/par-4 - 会社法 第八百四十七条の二第九項（旧株主による責任追及等の訴え） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-847-2/par-9 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-847-2/par-9 - 会社法 第八百四十七条の三第十項（最終完全親会社等の株主による特定責任追及の訴え） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-847-3/par-10 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-847-3/par-10 - 会社法 第八百五十条第四項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-850/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-850/par-4 --- ## 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