# 民法 / Civil Code — 第五百三十三条 (Article 533) - 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: 第五百三十三条 (Article 533)（同時履行の抗弁） — address `art-533` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-533 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-533 - 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. --- ### 第五百三十三条（同時履行の抗弁） — (Defense of Simultaneous Performance) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-533 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-533 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-533 **第一項** 双務契約の当事者の一方は、相手方がその債務の履行（債務の履行に代わる損害賠償の債務の履行を含む。）を提供するまでは、自己の債務の履行を拒むことができる。ただし、相手方の債務が弁済期にないときは、この限りでない。 art-533/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-533/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-533/par-1 A party to a bilateral contract may refuse to perform that party's own obligation until the other party tenders the performance of that other party's obligation (including the performance of an obligation to compensate for damage in lieu of the performance of an obligation); provided, however, that this does not apply if the obligation of the other party is not yet due. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 第五百四十六条第一項（契約の解除と同時履行） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-546/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-546/par-1 - 民法 第六百六十七条の二第一項（他の組合員の債務不履行） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-667-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-667-2/par-1 - 民法 第六百九十二条第一項（終身定期金契約の解除と同時履行） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-692/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-692/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