# 民法 / Civil Code — 第四百四十三条 (Article 443) - 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: 第四百四十三条 (Article 443)（通知を怠った連帯債務者の求償の制限） — address `art-443` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-443 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-443 - 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. --- ### 第四百四十三条（通知を怠った連帯債務者の求償の制限） — (Limitation on Reimbursement to Joint and Several Obligor That Has Failed to Give Notice) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-443 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-443 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-443 **第一項** 他の連帯債務者があることを知りながら、連帯債務者の一人が共同の免責を得ることを他の連帯債務者に通知しないで弁済をし、その他自己の財産をもって共同の免責を得た場合において、他の連帯債務者は、債権者に対抗することができる事由を有していたときは、その負担部分について、その事由をもってその免責を得た連帯債務者に対抗することができる。この場合において、相殺をもってその免責を得た連帯債務者に対抗したときは、その連帯債務者は、債権者に対し、相殺によって消滅すべきであった債務の履行を請求することができる。 art-443/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-443/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-443/par-1 If one of the joint and several obligors performs the obligation or otherwise obtains a common discharge in exchange for that obligor's own property, while knowing the existence of other joint and several obligors but without giving notice of the common discharge to the other joint and several obligors, another joint and several obligor has a defense that may be duly asserted against the obligee, the other joint and several obligor may duly assert that defense against the joint and several obligor that obtained the discharge to the extent of the other obligor's share of the obligation. In such a case, if the other joint and several obligor duly asserts a set-off as defense against the joint and several obligor that obtained the discharge, the joint and several obligor may request the obligee to perform the obligation which should have been extinguished due to set-off. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 弁済をし、その他自己の財産をもって共同の免責を得た連帯債務者が、他の連帯債務者があることを知りながらその免責を得たことを他の連帯債務者に通知することを怠ったため、他の連帯債務者が善意で弁済その他自己の財産をもって免責を得るための行為をしたときは、当該他の連帯債務者は、その免責を得るための行為を有効であったものとみなすことができる。 art-443/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-443/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-443/par-2 If one of the joint and several obligors that has performed the obligation or otherwise obtained a common discharge in exchange for that obligor's own property, while knowing the existence of other joint and several obligors, fails to give notice of the acquisition of the discharge to the other joint and several obligors, and as a result, another joint and several obligor performs the obligation or performs another act in good faith to obtain discharge in exchange for that obligor's own property, the other joint and several obligor may deem that the act performed to obtain the discharge is valid. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 国税通則法 第八条第一項（国税の連帯納付義務についての民法の準用） — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-tax-general-rules-act/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/337AC0000000066/art-8/par-1 - 民法 第四百六十五条第一項（共同保証人間の求償権） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-465/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-465/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