# 民法 / Civil Code — 第千十二条 (Article 1012) - Law: 民法 (Civil Code), 明治二十九年法律第八十九号 - English title "Civil Code": 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: 第千十二条 (Article 1012)（遺言執行者の権利義務） — address `art-1012` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-1012 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-1012 - 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. --- ### 第千十二条（遺言執行者の権利義務） — (Rights and Duties of Executor) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-1012 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-1012 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-1012 **第一項** 遺言執行者は、遺言の内容を実現するため、相続財産の管理その他遺言の執行に必要な一切の行為をする権利義務を有する。 art-1012/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-1012/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-1012/par-1 In order to realize the contents of the will, the executor has the right and the duty to administer the estate and to perform all other actions necessary to the execution of the will. machine translation, not official **第二項** 遺言執行者がある場合には、遺贈の履行は、遺言執行者のみが行うことができる。 art-1012/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-1012/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-1012/par-2 If there is an executor, performance of a legacy may be carried out only by the executor. machine translation, not official **第三項** 第六百四十四条、第六百四十五条から第六百四十七条まで及び第六百五十条の規定は、遺言執行者について準用する。 art-1012/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-1012/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-1012/par-3 The provisions of Articles 644, 645 through 647 and 650 apply mutatis mutandis to the executor. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-1012/par-3: 第六百四十四条 → 民法 第六百四十四条 (Article 644), art-644 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-644 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-644 - art-1012/par-3: 第六百四十五条から第六百四十七条まで → 民法 第六百四十五条 (Article 645), art-645 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-645 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-645 - art-1012/par-3: 第六百四十五条から第六百四十七条まで → 民法 第六百四十六条 (Article 646), art-646 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-646 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-646 - art-1012/par-3: 第六百四十五条から第六百四十七条まで → 民法 第六百四十七条 (Article 647), art-647 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-647 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-647 - art-1012/par-3: 第六百五十条 → 民法 第六百五十条 (Article 650), art-650 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-650 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-650 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 第千十四条第一項（特定財産に関する遺言の執行） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-1014/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-1014/par-1 - 民法 附則第八条第一項（遺言執行者の権利義務等に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/suppl-4301-72/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-4301-72/art-8/par-1 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 民法 — the text in force from 2026-06-24 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/129AC0000000089/20260624_508AC0000000045), retrieved 2026-10-11 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Civil Code — Ministry of Justice translation (part 2 of 2) (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4275/tb), retrieved 2026-10-11 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Civil Code — Ministry of Justice translation (part 1 of 2) (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4848/tb), retrieved 2026-10-11 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch civil-code-20261011T170941-008, translated 2026-10-12 - This site's parser, version 190 — 民法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-11