# 民法 / Civil Code — 第四百十九条 (Article 419) - 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: 第四百十九条 (Article 419)（金銭債務の特則） — address `art-419` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-419 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-419 - 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. --- ### 第四百十九条（金銭債務の特則） — (Special Provisions for Monetary Debt) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-419 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-419 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-419 **第一項** 金銭の給付を目的とする債務の不履行については、その損害賠償の額は、債務者が遅滞の責任を負った最初の時点における法定利率によって定める。ただし、約定利率が法定利率を超えるときは、約定利率による。 art-419/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-419/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-419/par-1 The amount of damages for failure to perform an obligation to deliver money is determined with reference to the statutory interest rate on the time when the obligor first assumes the responsibility for the delay; provided, however, that if the agreed-upon interest rate exceeds the statutory interest rate, the agreed-upon interest rate prevails. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の損害賠償については、債権者は、損害の証明をすることを要しない。 art-419/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-419/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-419/par-2 The obligee is not required to prove damages with respect to the damages referred to in the preceding paragraph. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "The obligee is not be required to prove damages with respect to the damages referred to in the preceding paragraph." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4848/tb **第三項** 第一項の損害賠償については、債務者は、不可抗力をもって抗弁とすることができない。 art-419/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-419/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-419/par-3 The obligor may not raise the defense of force majeure with respect to the damages referred to in paragraph (1). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-419/par-2: 前項 → 民法 第四百十九条第一項 (Article 419, paragraph (1)), art-419/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-419/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-419/par-1 - art-419/par-3: 第一項 → 民法 第四百十九条第一項 (Article 419, paragraph (1)), art-419/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-419/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-419/par-1 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 第四百十九条第二項（金銭債務の特則） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-419/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-419/par-2 - 民法 第四百十九条第三項（金銭債務の特則） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-419/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-419/par-3 - 民法 附則第十七条第三項（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-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-4291-44/art-17/par-3 --- ## Sources - claude-opus-5-5 — Corrections to the Ministry of Justice's English of paragraphs, written 2026-10-12 - 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 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Civil Code (民法), Article 419, paragraph (2) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (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