# 民法 / Civil Code — 第百六十九条 (Article 169) - 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: 第百六十九条 (Article 169)（判決で確定した権利の消滅時効） — address `art-169` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-169 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-169 - 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. --- ### 第百六十九条（判決で確定した権利の消滅時効） — (Extinctive Prescription of Right Determined by Judgment) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-169 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-169 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-169 **第一項** 確定判決又は確定判決と同一の効力を有するものによって確定した権利については、十年より短い時効期間の定めがあるものであっても、その時効期間は、十年とする。 art-169/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-169/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-169/par-1 The period of prescription of a right determined by a final and binding judgment or anything that has the same effect as a final and binding judgment is 10 years even if a period of prescription shorter than 10 years is provided for. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の規定は、確定の時に弁済期の到来していない債権については、適用しない。 art-169/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-169/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-169/par-2 The provisions of the preceding paragraph do not apply to a claim which is not yet due and payable at the time when it is determined. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-169/par-2: 前項 → 民法 第百六十九条第一項 (Article 169, paragraph (1)), art-169/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-169/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-169/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 第百六十九条第二項（判決で確定した権利の消滅時効） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-169/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-169/par-2 --- ## 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