# 民法 / Civil Code — 第五百六十五条 (Article 565) - 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: 第五百六十五条 (Article 565)（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） — address `art-565` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-565 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-565 - 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. --- ### 第五百六十五条（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） — (Seller's Warranty in Case of Non-Conformity of Transferred Right to Contract Terms) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-565 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-565 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-565 **第一項** 前三条の規定は、売主が買主に移転した権利が契約の内容に適合しないものである場合（権利の一部が他人に属する場合においてその権利の一部を移転しないときを含む。）について準用する。 art-565/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-565/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-565/par-1 The provisions of the preceding three Articles apply mutatis mutandis if the right transferred by the seller to the buyer does not conform to the contract terms (including the case in which the seller fails to transfer part of a right that belongs to another person). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-565/par-1: 前三条 → 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-565/par-1: 前三条 → 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-565/par-1: 前三条 → 民法 第五百六十四条 (Article 564), art-564 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-564 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-564 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 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 第五百七十二条第一項（担保責任を負わない旨の特約） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-572/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-572/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