# 民法 / Civil Code — 第四百十三条 (Article 413) - 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: 第四百十三条 (Article 413)（受領遅滞） — address `art-413` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-413 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-413 - 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. --- ### 第四百十三条（受領遅滞） — (Obligee's Delay in Acceptance) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-413 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-413 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-413 **第一項** 債権者が債務の履行を受けることを拒み、又は受けることができない場合において、その債務の目的が特定物の引渡しであるときは、債務者は、履行の提供をした時からその引渡しをするまで、自己の財産に対するのと同一の注意をもって、その物を保存すれば足りる。 art-413/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-413/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-413/par-1 If the obligee refuses, or is unable, to accept the tender of the performance of an obligation, and the subject of the obligation is the delivery of a specific thing, it is sufficient for the obligor to retain the thing by exercising care identical to that the obligor exercises for the obligor's own property, during the period from the time of the tender of the performance until the delivery of the thing. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 債権者が債務の履行を受けることを拒み、又は受けることができないことによって、その履行の費用が増加したときは、その増加額は、債権者の負担とする。 art-413/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-413/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-413/par-2 If the obligee's refusal or inability to accept the performance of an obligation results in increasing the expenses for the performance, the amount of increase is borne by the obligee. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 附則第十七条第一項（債務不履行の責任等に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/suppl-4291-44/art-17/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-4291-44/art-17/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