# 民法 / Civil Code — 第四百六十二条 (Article 462) - 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: 第四百六十二条 (Article 462)（委託を受けない保証人の求償権） — address `art-462` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-462 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-462 - 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. --- ### 第四百六十二条（委託を受けない保証人の求償権） — (Right to Reimbursement of Guarantor Guaranteeing Without Request by Principal Obligor) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-462 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-462 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-462 **第一項** 第四百五十九条の二第一項の規定は、主たる債務者の委託を受けないで保証をした者が債務の消滅行為をした場合について準用する。 art-462/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-462/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-462/par-1 The provisions of Article 459-2, paragraph (1) apply mutatis mutandis if a person, that has given guarantee without the request of the principal obligor, performs an act for extinguishment of obligation. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 主たる債務者の意思に反して保証をした者は、主たる債務者が現に利益を受けている限度においてのみ求償権を有する。この場合において、主たる債務者が求償の日以前に相殺の原因を有していたことを主張するときは、保証人は、債権者に対し、その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-462/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-462/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-462/par-2 A person that has become a guarantor against the intention of the principal obligor has the right to reimbursement only to the extent currently enriched. In this case, if the principal obligor asserts to have grounds for set-off against the obligee before the day of the demand for reimbursement, the guarantor may demand that the obligee perform the obligation which would have been extinguished by that set-off. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 第四百五十九条の二第三項の規定は、前二項に規定する保証人が主たる債務の弁済期前に債務の消滅行為をした場合における求償権の行使について準用する。 art-462/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-462/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-462/par-3 The provisions of Article 459-2, paragraph (3) apply mutatis mutandis to the exercise of the right to reimbursement if the guarantor referred to in the preceding two paragraphs performs an act for extinguishment of obligation before the due date of the principal obligation. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-462/par-1: 第四百五十九条の二第一項 → 民法 第四百五十九条の二第一項 (Article 459-2, paragraph (1)), art-459-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-459-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-459-2/par-1 - art-462/par-3: 第四百五十九条の二第三項 → 民法 第四百五十九条の二第三項 (Article 459-2, paragraph (3)), art-459-2/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-459-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-459-2/par-3 - art-462/par-3: 前二項 → 民法 第四百六十二条第一項 (Article 462, paragraph (1)), art-462/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-462/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-462/par-1 - art-462/par-3: 前二項 → 民法 第四百六十二条第二項 (Article 462, paragraph (2)), art-462/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-462/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-462/par-2 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 第四百六十二条第三項（委託を受けない保証人の求償権） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-462/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-462/par-3 - 民法 第四百六十五条第二項（共同保証人間の求償権） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-465/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-465/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