# 会社法 / Companies Act — 第八百五十三条 (Article 853) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-853. 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: 第八百五十三条 (Article 853)（再審の訴え） — address `art-853` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-853 - 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). 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第八百五十三条（再審の訴え） — (Actions for a Retrial) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-853 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-853 **第一項** 責任追及等の訴えが提起された場合において、原告及び被告が共謀して責任追及等の訴えに係る訴訟の目的である株式会社等の権利を害する目的をもって判決をさせたときは、次の各号に掲げる者は、当該各号に定める訴えに係る確定した終局判決に対し、再審の訴えをもって、不服を申し立てることができる。 art-853/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-853/par-1 If an action to enforce liability has been filed, and the plaintiff and the defendant, in conspiracy, caused the court to render a judgment for the purpose of prejudicing the rights of the stock company, etc., which are the subject-matter of the suit relating to the action to enforce liability, the person set forth in the following items may enter an appeal against the final judgment that became final and binding concerning the action prescribed in those items, by filing an action for a retrial: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 株主又は株式会社等　責任追及等の訴え art-853/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-853/par-1/item-1 a shareholder or stock company, etc.:an action to enforce liability; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 適格旧株主　責任追及等の訴え（第八百四十七条の二第一項各号に掲げる行為の効力が生じた時までにその原因となった事実が生じた責任又は義務に係るものに限る。） art-853/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-853/par-1/item-2 a qualified former shareholder:an action to enforce liability (limited to a liability or obligation for which the fact causing them occurred by the time when the acts set forth in the items of Article 847-2, paragraph (1) became effective); and Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **三** 最終完全親会社等の株主　特定責任追及の訴え art-853/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-853/par-1/item-3 a shareholder of an ultimate, wholly owning parent company, etc.:an action to enforce specific liability. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前条の規定は、前項の再審の訴えについて準用する。 art-853/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-853/par-2 The provisions of the preceding Article apply mutatis mutandis to the appeal for a retrial referred to in the preceding paragraph. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-853/par-1/item-2: 第八百四十七条の二第一項 → 会社法 第八百四十七条の二第一項 (Article 847-2, paragraph (1)), art-847-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-847-2/par-1 - art-853/par-2: 前条 → 会社法 第八百五十二条 (Article 852), art-852 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-852 - art-853/par-2: 前項 → 会社法 第八百五十三条第一項 (Article 853, paragraph (1)), art-853/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-853/par-1 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 会社法 第八百五十三条第二項（再審の訴え） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-853/par-2 - 会社法 第九百六十八条第一項第四号（株主等の権利の行使に関する贈収賄罪） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-968/par-1/item-4 --- ## 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 224 — 会社法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-09-17