# 会社法 / Companies Act — 第六百六十五条 (Article 665) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-665. 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: 第六百六十五条 (Article 665)（清算からの除斥） — address `art-665` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-665 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-665 - 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. --- ### 第六百六十五条（清算からの除斥） — (Exclusion from Liquidation) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-665 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-665 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-665 **第一項** 清算持分会社（合同会社に限る。以下この条において同じ。）の債権者（知れている債権者を除く。）であって第六百六十条第一項の期間内にその債権の申出をしなかったものは、清算から除斥される。 art-665/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-665/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-665/par-1 Creditors (excluding known creditors) of a liquidating membership company; (limited to limited liability companies; hereinafter the same applies in this Article) who fail to state their claims during the period under Article 660, paragraph (1) are excluded from the liquidation. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の規定により清算から除斥された債権者は、分配がされていない残余財産に対してのみ、弁済を請求することができる。 art-665/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-665/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-665/par-2 Creditors who are excluded from the liquidation pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph may demand the performance solely with respect to the residual assets that are not distributed. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 清算持分会社の残余財産を社員の一部に分配した場合には、当該社員の受けた分配と同一の割合の分配を当該社員以外の社員に対してするために必要な財産は、前項の残余財産から控除する。 art-665/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-665/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-665/par-3 If residual assets of a liquidating membership company have been distributed to some members, the assets necessary for the distribution to members other than those members in the same proportion as that applied for the distribution received by relevant members are deducted from the residual assets under the preceding paragraph. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-665/par-1: この条 → 会社法 第六百六十五条 (Article 665), art-665 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-665 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-665 - art-665/par-1: 第六百六十条第一項 → 会社法 第六百六十条第一項 (Article 660, paragraph (1)), art-660/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-660/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-660/par-1 - art-665/par-2: 前項 → 会社法 第六百六十五条第一項 (Article 665, paragraph (1)), art-665/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-665/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-665/par-1 - art-665/par-3: 前項 → 会社法 第六百六十五条第二項 (Article 665, paragraph (2)), art-665/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-665/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-665/par-2 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 会社法 第六百六十五条第一項（清算からの除斥） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-665/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-665/par-1 - 会社法 第六百六十五条第二項（清算からの除斥） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-665/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-665/par-2 - 会社法 第六百六十五条第三項（清算からの除斥） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-665/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-665/par-3 --- ## 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