# 民法 / Civil Code — 第四百十六条 (Article 416) - 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: 第四百十六条 (Article 416)（損害賠償の範囲） — address `art-416` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-416 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-416 - 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. --- ### 第四百十六条（損害賠償の範囲） — (Scope of Damages) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-416 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-416 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-416 **第一項** 債務の不履行に対する損害賠償の請求は、これによって通常生ずべき損害の賠償をさせることをその目的とする。 art-416/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-416/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-416/par-1 The purpose of the claim for damages for failure to perform an obligation is to have the obligor to pay the compensation for damage which would ordinarily arise from the failure. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 特別の事情によって生じた損害であっても、当事者がその事情を予見すべきであったときは、債権者は、その賠償を請求することができる。 art-416/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-416/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-416/par-2 The obligee may also claim the compensation for damage which has arisen from any special circumstances if the party did foresee, or should have foreseen, the circumstances. 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