# 会社法 / Companies Act — 第五百八十九条 (Article 589) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-589. 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: 第五百八十九条 (Article 589)（社員であると誤認させる行為をした者の責任） — address `art-589` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-589 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-589 - 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. --- ### 第五百八十九条（社員であると誤認させる行為をした者の責任） — (Responsibility for Acts Mistaken as Acts of Members) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-589 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-589 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-589 **第一項** 合名会社又は合資会社の社員でない者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、当該社員でない者は、その誤認に基づいて合名会社又は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-589/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-589/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-589/par-1 If a person who is neither a member of a general partnership company nor limited partnership company engages in an act that causes relevant person to be mistaken as a member with unlimited liability, relevant person assumes the same liability as that assumed by a member with unlimited liability in relation to persons who transact with the general partnership company or limited partnership company on the bases of 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社員でない者が自己を有限責任社員であると誤認させる行為をしたときは、当該社員でない者は、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-589/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-589/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-589/par-2 If a person who is a member in neither a limited partnership company nor limited liability company engages in an act that causes relevant person to be mistaken as a member with limited liability, relevant person assumes 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 with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "If a person who is a member in neither a limited partnership company nor limited liability company engages in an act that causes relevant person to be mistaken as a member with limited liability, relevant person assumes 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 the to the extent of the liability so mistaken." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4481/tb --- ## Sources - claude-opus-5-5 — Corrections to the Ministry of Justice's English of paragraphs, written 2026-10-05 - 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 (会社法), Article 589, paragraph (2) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4481/tb), 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