# 民法 / Civil Code — 第五百四十一条 (Article 541) - 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: 第五百四十一条 (Article 541)（催告による解除） — address `art-541` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-541 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-541 - 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. --- ### 第五百四十一条（催告による解除） — (Cancellation After Demand) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-541 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-541 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-541 **第一項** 当事者の一方がその債務を履行しない場合において、相手方が相当の期間を定めてその履行の催告をし、その期間内に履行がないときは、相手方は、契約の解除をすることができる。ただし、その期間を経過した時における債務の不履行がその契約及び取引上の社会通念に照らして軽微であるときは、この限りでない。 art-541/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-541/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-541/par-1 If one of the parties does not perform that party's obligation, and the other party demands performance of that obligation, specifying a reasonable period of time, but no performance is completed during that period, the other party may cancel the contract; provided, however, that this does not apply if the non-performance of the obligations upon the passage of the period is minor in light of the contract and common sense trading practices. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 7 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 第五百四十二条第一項（催告によらない解除） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-542/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-542/par-1 - 民法 第五百四十二条第一項第五号（催告によらない解除） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-542/par-1/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-542/par-1/item-5 - 民法 第五百四十二条第二項（催告によらない解除） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-542/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-542/par-2 - 民法 第五百四十三条第一項（債権者の責めに帰すべき事由による場合） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-543/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-543/par-1 - 民法 第五百六十四条第一項（買主の損害賠償請求及び解除権の行使） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-564/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-564/par-1 - 民法 第五百六十八条第一項（競売における担保責任等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-568/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-568/par-1 - 民法 附則第三十二条第一項（契約の解除に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/suppl-4291-44/art-32/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-4291-44/art-32/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