# 民法 / Civil Code — 第五百三十九条の二 (Article 539-2) - 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: 第五百三十九条の二 (Article 539-2) — address `art-539-2` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-539-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-539-2 - 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. --- ### 第五百三十九条の二 art-539-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-539-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-539-2 **第一項** 契約の当事者の一方が第三者との間で契約上の地位を譲渡する旨の合意をした場合において、その契約の相手方がその譲渡を承諾したときは、契約上の地位は、その第三者に移転する。 art-539-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-539-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-539-2/par-1 If one of the parties to a contract made an agreement with a third party to transfer that party's contractual status to that third party, and the other party to the contract gives consent to the transfer, the contractual status is transferred to the third party. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 附則第三十一条第一項（契約上の地位の移転に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/suppl-4291-44/art-31/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-4291-44/art-31/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