# 民法 / Civil Code — 第四百六十五条 (Article 465) - 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: 第四百六十五条 (Article 465)（共同保証人間の求償権） — address `art-465` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-465 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-465 - 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. --- ### 第四百六十五条（共同保証人間の求償権） — (Right of Joint Guarantors to Reimbursement for One Obligation) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-465 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-465 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-465 **第一項** 第四百四十二条から第四百四十四条までの規定は、数人の保証人がある場合において、そのうちの一人の保証人が、主たる債務が不可分であるため又は各保証人が全額を弁済すべき旨の特約があるため、その全額又は自己の負担部分を超える額を弁済したときについて準用する。 art-465/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-465/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-465/par-1 If there are multiple guarantors, and one guarantor has paid the entire amount of the obligation or any amount exceeding that guarantor's share because the principal obligation is indivisible, or because there is a special provisions to the effect that each guarantor should pay the entire amount, the provisions of Articles 442 through 444 apply mutatis mutandis. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 第四百六十二条の規定は、前項に規定する場合を除き、互いに連帯しない保証人の一人が全額又は自己の負担部分を超える額を弁済したときについて準用する。 art-465/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-465/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-465/par-2 Except in the cases prescribed in the preceding paragraph, if one of the guarantors that are not jointly and severally liable has paid the entire amount or any amount exceeding that guarantor's share, the provisions of Article 462 apply mutatis mutandis. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-465/par-1: 第四百四十二条から第四百四十四条まで → 民法 第四百四十二条 (Article 442), art-442 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-442 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-442 - art-465/par-1: 第四百四十二条から第四百四十四条まで → 民法 第四百四十三条 (Article 443), art-443 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-443 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-443 - art-465/par-1: 第四百四十二条から第四百四十四条まで → 民法 第四百四十四条 (Article 444), art-444 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-444 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-444 - art-465/par-2: 第四百六十二条 → 民法 第四百六十二条 (Article 462), art-462 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-462 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-462 - art-465/par-2: 前項 → 民法 第四百六十五条第一項 (Article 465, paragraph (1)), art-465/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-465/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-465/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 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