# 民法 / Civil Code — 第四百二十六条 (Article 426) - 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: 第四百二十六条 (Article 426) — address `art-426` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-426 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-426 - 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. --- ### 第四百二十六条 art-426 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-426 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-426 **第一項** 詐害行為取消請求に係る訴えは、債務者が債権者を害することを知って行為をしたことを債権者が知った時から二年を経過したときは、提起することができない。行為の時から十年を経過したときも、同様とする。 art-426/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-426/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-426/par-1 No action for demand for revocation of fraudulent act may be filed if two years have passed from the time when the obligee came to know that the obligor committed the act knowing that it would be prejudicial to the obligee. The same applies if 10 years have passed from the time of the act. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 会社法 第八百六十三条第二項（清算持分会社の財産処分の取消しの訴え） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-863/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-863/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