# 会社法 / Companies Act — 第六百三十四条 (Article 634) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-634. 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: 第六百三十四条 (Article 634)（社員に対する求償権の制限等） — address `art-634` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-634 - e-Gov law ID: 417AC0000000086 — never renamed. A permanent link, `/l/{lawId}/{address}` on this site, redirects to the page. - Every provision below carries its address and its URL 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. --- ### 第六百三十四条（社員に対する求償権の制限等） — (Restrictions on Rights to Obtain Reimbursement from Members) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-634 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-634 **第一項** 前条第一項に規定する場合において、出資の払戻しを受けた社員は、出資払戻額が出資の払戻しをした日における剰余金額を超えることにつき善意であるときは、当該出資払戻額について、当該出資の払戻しに関する業務を執行した社員からの求償の請求に応ずる義務を負わない。 art-634/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-634/par-1 In the cases provided for in paragraph (1) of the preceding Article, if members who received the contribution refund are without knowledge with respect to the fact that the amount of contribution refunds exceeds the amount of surplus at the day when relevant contribution refunds takes place, relevant members do not have the obligation to respond to the demand for reimbursement by the members that executed the operations in connection with relevant contribution refunds with respect to relevant amount of contribution refunds. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前条第一項に規定する場合には、合同会社の債権者は、出資の払戻しを受けた社員に対し、出資払戻額（当該出資払戻額が当該債権者の合同会社に対して有する債権額を超える場合にあっては、当該債権額）に相当する金銭を支払わせることができる。 art-634/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-634/par-2 In the cases provided for in paragraph (1) of the preceding Article, creditors of a limited liability company may have the members that received the contribution refunds pay the monies equivalent to the amount of contribution refunds (or, if relevant amount of contribution refunds exceeds the amount that the limited liability company owes to relevant creditors, relevant amount owed). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-634/par-1: 前条第一項 → 会社法 第六百三十三条第一項 (Article 633, paragraph (1)), art-633/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-633/par-1 - art-634/par-2: 前条第一項 → 会社法 第六百三十三条第一項 (Article 633, paragraph (1)), art-633/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-633/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 224 — 会社法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-09-17