# 民法 / Civil Code — 第百二十条 (Article 120) - 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: 第百二十条 (Article 120)（取消権者） — address `art-120` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-120 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-120 - 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. --- ### 第百二十条（取消権者） — (Holder of Right to Rescind) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-120 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-120 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-120 **第一項** 行為能力の制限によって取り消すことができる行為は、制限行為能力者（他の制限行為能力者の法定代理人としてした行為にあっては、当該他の制限行為能力者を含む。）又はその代理人、承継人若しくは同意をすることができる者に限り、取り消すことができる。 art-120/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-120/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-120/par-1 An act that is revocable on the grounds of the qualified legal capacity to act of the person who did the act may be revoked only by the person with qualified legal capacity (in the case of an act performed by the person as a legal representative of another person with limited capacity, including that other person with limited capacity), or their agent or successor, or a person who has the authority to give consent thereto. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 錯誤、詐欺又は強迫によって取り消すことができる行為は、瑕疵ある意思表示をした者又はその代理人若しくは承継人に限り、取り消すことができる。 art-120/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-120/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-120/par-2 An act that is revocable on the grounds of a mistake, fraud or duress may be revoked only by the person who made the defective manifestation of intention, or their agent or successor. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 第百二十二条第一項（取り消すことができる行為の追認） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-122/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-122/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