# 民法 / Civil Code — 第五百七十六条 (Article 576) - 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: 第五百七十六条 (Article 576)（権利を取得することができない等のおそれがある場合の買主による代金の支払の拒絶） — address `art-576` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-576 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-576 - 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. --- ### 第五百七十六条（権利を取得することができない等のおそれがある場合の買主による代金の支払の拒絶） — (Buyer's Refusal to Pay Price When There Is a Likelihood That the Buyer Will Be Unable to Acquire Rights) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-576 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-576 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-576 **第一項** 売買の目的について権利を主張する者があることその他の事由により、買主がその買い受けた権利の全部若しくは一部を取得することができず、又は失うおそれがあるときは、買主は、その危険の程度に応じて、代金の全部又は一部の支払を拒むことができる。ただし、売主が相当の担保を供したときは、この限りでない。 art-576/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-576/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-576/par-1 If the buyer is likely to be unable to acquire or likely to lose the rights that the buyer has bought, in whole or in part, due to grounds such as the existence of persons asserting rights to the subject of the sale, the buyer may refuse to pay the price, in whole or in part, in proportion to the degree of that likelihood; provided, however, that this does not apply if the seller has provided reasonable security. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 第五百七十八条第一項（売主による代金の供託の請求） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-578/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-578/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