# 民法 / Civil Code — 第七百十九条 (Article 719) - 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: 第七百十九条 (Article 719)（共同不法行為者の責任） — address `art-719` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-719 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-719 - 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. --- ### 第七百十九条（共同不法行為者の責任） — (Liability of Joint Tortfeasors) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-719 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-719 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-719 **第一項** 数人が共同の不法行為によって他人に損害を加えたときは、各自が連帯してその損害を賠償する責任を負う。共同行為者のうちいずれの者がその損害を加えたかを知ることができないときも、同様とする。 art-719/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-719/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-719/par-1 If more than one person has inflicted damage on another person by a joint tort, each of them is jointly and severally liable to compensate for the damage. The same applies if it cannot be ascertained which of the joint tortfeasors inflicted the damage. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 行為者を教唆した者及び幇助した者は、共同行為者とみなして、前項の規定を適用する。 art-719/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-719/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-719/par-2 A person who has abetted or aided a perpetrator is deemed to be a joint tortfeasor, and the provisions of the preceding paragraph apply. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-719/par-2: 前項 → 民法 第七百十九条第一項 (Article 719, paragraph (1)), art-719/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-719/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-719/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 第七百十九条第二項（共同不法行為者の責任） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-719/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-719/par-2 --- ## 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