# 民法 / Civil Code — 第四百九十条 (Article 490) - 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: 第四百九十条 (Article 490)（合意による弁済の充当） — address `art-490` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-490 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-490 - 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. --- ### 第四百九十条（合意による弁済の充当） — (Appropriation of Performance by Agreement) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-490 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-490 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-490 **第一項** 前二条の規定にかかわらず、弁済をする者と弁済を受領する者との間に弁済の充当の順序に関する合意があるときは、その順序に従い、その弁済を充当する。 art-490/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-490/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-490/par-1 Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding two Articles, if the person that makes performance and the person that accepts performance agree on the order of appropriation of performance, the performance is appropriated according to the agreed-upon order. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-490/par-1: 前二条 → 民法 第四百八十八条 (Article 488), art-488 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-488 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-488 - art-490/par-1: 前二条 → 民法 第四百八十九条 (Article 489), art-489 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-489 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-489 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 第四百九十一条第一項（数個の給付をすべき場合の充当） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-491/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-491/par-1 - 民法 附則第二十五条第二項（弁済に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/suppl-4291-44/art-25/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-4291-44/art-25/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