# 民法 / Civil Code — 第五百六十四条 (Article 564) - 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: 第五百六十四条 (Article 564)（買主の損害賠償請求及び解除権の行使） — address `art-564` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-564 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-564 - 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. --- ### 第五百六十四条（買主の損害賠償請求及び解除権の行使） — (Claim for Damages and Exercise of Right to Cancel by Buyer) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-564 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-564 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-564 **第一項** 前二条の規定は、第四百十五条の規定による損害賠償の請求並びに第五百四十一条及び第五百四十二条の規定による解除権の行使を妨げない。 art-564/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-564/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-564/par-1 The provisions of the preceding two Articles do not preclude the buyer from claiming damages pursuant to the provisions of Article 415 or exercising the right to cancel pursuant to the provisions of Articles 541 and 542. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-564/par-1: 前二条 → 民法 第五百六十二条 (Article 562), art-562 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-562 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-562 - art-564/par-1: 前二条 → 民法 第五百六十三条 (Article 563), art-563 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-563 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-563 - art-564/par-1: 第四百十五条 → 民法 第四百十五条 (Article 415), art-415 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-415 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-415 - art-564/par-1: 第五百四十一条 → 民法 第五百四十一条 (Article 541), art-541 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-541 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-541 - art-564/par-1: 第五百四十二条 → 民法 第五百四十二条 (Article 542), art-542 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-542 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-542 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 第五百六十五条第一項（移転した権利が契約の内容に適合しない場合における売主の担保責任） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-565/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-565/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