# 民法 / Civil Code — 第六百条 (Article 600) - 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: 第六百条 (Article 600)（損害賠償及び費用の償還の請求権についての期間の制限） — address `art-600` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-600 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-600 - 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. --- ### 第六百条（損害賠償及び費用の償還の請求権についての期間の制限） — (Restriction on Period to Claim Damages and Reimbursement of Costs) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-600 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-600 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-600 **第一項** 契約の本旨に反する使用又は収益によって生じた損害の賠償及び借主が支出した費用の償還は、貸主が返還を受けた時から一年以内に請求しなければならない。 art-600/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-600/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-600/par-1 Claims for compensation for damage resulting from using or taking profits of the thing inconsistent with the main purpose of the contract and for the reimbursement of expenditures incurred by the borrower must be submitted within one year from the time when the lender receives the return of the borrowed things. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の損害賠償の請求権については、貸主が返還を受けた時から一年を経過するまでの間は、時効は、完成しない。 art-600/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-600/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-600/par-2 With regard to the claim for damages referred to in the preceding paragraph, the prescription period does not expire until one year has passed from the time when the lender receives the return of the borrowed thing. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-600/par-2: 前項 → 民法 第六百条第一項 (Article 600, paragraph (1)), art-600/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-600/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-600/par-1 ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 第六百条第二項（損害賠償及び費用の償還の請求権についての期間の制限） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-600/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-600/par-2 - 民法 第六百二十二条第一項（使用貸借の規定の準用） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-622/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-622/par-1 - 民法 第千三十六条第一項（使用貸借及び賃貸借の規定の準用） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-1036/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-1036/par-1 - 民法 第千四十一条第一項（使用貸借等の規定の準用） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-1041/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-1041/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