# 民法 / Civil Code — 第百十六条 (Article 116) - 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: 第百十六条 (Article 116)（無権代理行為の追認） — address `art-116` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-116 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-116 - 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. --- ### 第百十六条（無権代理行為の追認） — (Ratification of Act of Unauthorized Agency) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-116 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-116 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-116 **第一項** 追認は、別段の意思表示がないときは、契約の時にさかのぼってその効力を生ずる。ただし、第三者の権利を害することはできない。 art-116/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-116/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-116/par-1 Ratification is retroactive to the time of the conclusion of the contract unless a particular intention is manifested; provided, however, that this may not prejudice the rights of a third party. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 第百十八条第一項（単独行為の無権代理） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-118/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-118/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 1 of 2) (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4848/tb), retrieved 2026-10-11 - This site's parser, version 190 — 民法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-11