# 会社法 / Companies Act — 第八百三十七条 (Article 837) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-837. 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: 第八百三十七条 (Article 837)（弁論等の必要的併合） — address `art-837` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-837 - 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. --- ### 第八百三十七条（弁論等の必要的併合） — (Mandatory Consolidation of Oral Arguments) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-837 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-837 **第一項** 同一の請求を目的とする会社の組織に関する訴えに係る訴訟が数個同時に係属するときは、その弁論及び裁判は、併合してしなければならない。 art-837/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-837/par-1 When several suits relating to an action concerning organization of company for the same claim are pending simultaneously, the oral arguments and judicial decisions thereof must be made in consolidation. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 7 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 社会保険労務士法 第二十五条の二十三の三第一項（合併の無効の訴えに関する会社法の準用） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-and-social-security-attorney-act/art-25-23-3/par-1 (e-Gov law ID 343AC1000000089) - 社会保険労務士法 第二十五条の二十五第四項（一般社団法人及び一般財団法人に関する法律及び会社法の準用等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-and-social-security-attorney-act/art-25-25/par-4 (e-Gov law ID 343AC1000000089) - 社会保険労務士法 第二十五条の二十五第五項（一般社団法人及び一般財団法人に関する法律及び会社法の準用等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-and-social-security-attorney-act/art-25-25/par-5 (e-Gov law ID 343AC1000000089) - 金融商品取引法 第八十八条の二十二第一項（会社法の準用） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-88-22/par-1 (e-Gov law ID 323AC0000000025) - 金融商品取引法 第百二条第一項（組織変更の無効の訴え） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-102/par-1 (e-Gov law ID 323AC0000000025) - 金融商品取引法 第百二条の七第一項（会社法の準用） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-102-7/par-1 (e-Gov law ID 323AC0000000025) - 金融商品取引法 第百四十六条第一項（合併の無効の訴え） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-146/par-1 (e-Gov law ID 323AC0000000025) --- ## 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 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Companies Act — Ministry of Justice translation (part 2 of 2) (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4482/tb), retrieved 2026-09-17 - This site's parser, version 229 — 会社法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-09-17