# 会社法 / Companies Act — 第五百八十八条 (Article 588) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-588. 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: 第五百八十八条 (Article 588)（無限責任社員であると誤認させる行為等をした有限責任社員の責任） — address `art-588` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-588 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-588 - 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. --- ### 第五百八十八条（無限責任社員であると誤認させる行為等をした有限責任社員の責任） — (Liability of Members with Limited Liability for Acts Mistaken as Acts of Members with Unlimited Liability) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-588 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-588 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-588 **第一項** 合資会社の有限責任社員が自己を無限責任社員であると誤認させる行為をしたときは、当該有限責任社員は、その誤認に基づいて合資会社と取引をした者に対し、無限責任社員と同一の責任を負う。 art-588/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-588/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-588/par-1 If a member with limited liability of a limited partnership company engages in an act that causes relevant member with limited liability to be mistaken as a member with unlimited liability, relevant member with limited liability assumes the same liability as that assumed by a member with unlimited liability in relation to persons who transact with the limited partnership company based on that mistaken belief. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 合資会社又は合同会社の有限責任社員がその責任の限度を誤認させる行為（前項の行為を除く。）をしたときは、当該有限責任社員は、その誤認に基づいて合資会社又は合同会社と取引をした者に対し、その誤認させた責任の範囲内で当該合資会社又は合同会社の債務を弁済する責任を負う。 art-588/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-588/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-588/par-2 If a member with limited liability of a limited partnership company or limited liability company engages in an act that causes mistake as to the extent of the liability of relevant member with limited liability(excluding that in the preceding paragraph), relevant member with limited liability assumes the liability to perform the obligations of relevant limited partnership company or limited liability company in relation to persons who transact with the limited partnership company or limited liability company on the bases of that mistaken belief, to the extent of the liability so mistaken. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-588/par-2: 前項 → 会社法 第五百八十八条第一項 (Article 588, paragraph (1)), art-588/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-588/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-588/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 会社法 第五百八十八条第二項（無限責任社員であると誤認させる行為等をした有限責任社員の責任） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-588/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-588/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