If the obligor is liable to pay interest and expenses in addition to principal with respect to one or more obligations (if the obligor bears two or more obligations, limited to when the obligor bears these obligations requiring the same kind of payment or delivery to the same obligee), and the person that performs the obligations makes payment or delivery which is not sufficient to extinguish the obligation in its entirety must be appropriated first to expenses, and then to interest and principal, in this order.
債務者が一個又は数個の債務について元本のほか利息及び費用を支払うべき場合(債務者が数個の債務を負担する場合にあっては、同一の債権者に対して同種の給付を目的とする数個の債務を負担するときに限る。)において、弁済をする者がその債務の全部を消滅させるのに足りない給付をしたときは、これを順次に費用、利息及び元本に充当しなければならない。
The provisions of the preceding Article apply mutatis mutandis in the case referred to in the preceding paragraph in which the person makes payment or delivery which is not sufficient to extinguish any of expenses, interest or principal in whole.