# 民法 / Civil Code — 第二十八条 (Article 28) - 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: 第二十八条 (Article 28)（管理人の権限） — address `art-28` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-28 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-28 - 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. --- ### 第二十八条（管理人の権限） — (Administrators' Authority) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-28 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-28 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-28 **第一項** 管理人は、第百三条に規定する権限を超える行為を必要とするときは、家庭裁判所の許可を得て、その行為をすることができる。不在者の生死が明らかでない場合において、その管理人が不在者が定めた権限を超える行為を必要とするときも、同様とする。 art-28/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-28/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-28/par-1 If an administrator needs to perform an act exceeding the authority provided for in Article 103, the administrator may perform that act after obtaining the permission of the family court. The same applies if it is unclear whether the absentee is dead or alive and the administrator needs to perform an act exceeding the authority established by the absentee. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-28/par-1: 第百三条 → 民法 第百三条 (Article 103), art-103 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-103 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-103 ## Cited by 5 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 第八百三十条第四項（第三者が無償で子に与えた財産の管理） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-830/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-830/par-4 - 民法 第八百九十五条第二項（推定相続人の廃除に関する審判確定前の遺産の管理） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-895/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-895/par-2 - 民法 第八百九十七条の二第二項（相続財産の保存） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-897-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-897-2/par-2 - 民法 第九百四十三条第二項（財産分離の請求後の相続財産の管理） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-943/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-943/par-2 - 民法 第九百五十三条第一項（不在者の財産の管理人に関する規定の準用） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-953/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-953/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