# 会社法 / Companies Act — 第八百六十一条 (Article 861) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-861. 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: 第八百六十一条 (Article 861)（被告） — address `art-861` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-861 - 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. --- ### 第八百六十一条（被告） — (Defendants) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-861 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-861 **第一項** 次の各号に掲げる訴えについては、当該各号に定める者を被告とする。 art-861/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-861/par-1 With regard to the actions set forth in the following items, the persons specified in each of those items are to be the defendants: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 第八百五十九条の訴え（次条及び第九百三十七条第一項第一号ルにおいて「持分会社の社員の除名の訴え」という。）　対象社員 art-861/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-861/par-1/item-1 the action referred to in Article 859 (referred to as an "action seeking removal of a member of a membership company" in the following Article and Article 937, paragraph (1), item (i), (k)):the subject member; and Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 前条の訴え（次条及び第九百三十七条第一項第一号ヲにおいて「持分会社の業務を執行する社員の業務執行権又は代表権の消滅の訴え」という。）　対象業務執行社員 art-861/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-861/par-1/item-2 the action referred to in the preceding Article (referred to as an "action seeking extinguishment of a right to execute business or authority of representation of a member executing business of a membership company" in the following Article and Article 937, paragraph (1), item (i), (l)):the subject managing member. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-861/par-1/item-1: 第八百五十九条 → 会社法 第八百五十九条 (Article 859), art-859 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-859 - art-861/par-1/item-1: 次条 → 会社法 第八百六十二条 (Article 862), art-862 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-862 - art-861/par-1/item-1: 第九百三十七条第一項第一号 → 会社法 第九百三十七条第一項第一号 (Article 937, paragraph (1), item (i)), art-937/par-1/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-937/par-1/item-1 - art-861/par-1/item-2: 前条 → 会社法 第八百六十条 (Article 860), art-860 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-860 - art-861/par-1/item-2: 次条 → 会社法 第八百六十二条 (Article 862), art-862 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-862 - art-861/par-1/item-2: 第九百三十七条第一項第一号 → 会社法 第九百三十七条第一項第一号 (Article 937, paragraph (1), item (i)), art-937/par-1/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-937/par-1/item-1 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 会社法 第八百五十九条第一項（持分会社の社員の除名の訴え） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-859/par-1 - 会社法 第八百六十条第一項（持分会社の業務を執行する社員の業務執行権又は代表権の消滅の訴え） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-860/par-1 - 社会保険労務士法 第二十五条の二十五第一項（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-1 (e-Gov law ID 343AC1000000089) --- ## 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