# 民法 / Civil Code — 第七百四十四条 (Article 744) - 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: 第七百四十四条 (Article 744)（不適法な婚姻の取消し） — address `art-744` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-744 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-744 - 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. --- ### 第七百四十四条（不適法な婚姻の取消し） — (Cancellation of an Unlawful Marriage) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-744 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-744 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-744 **第一項** 第七百三十一条、第七百三十二条及び第七百三十四条から第七百三十六条までの規定に違反した婚姻は、各当事者、その親族又は検察官から、その取消しを家庭裁判所に請求することができる。ただし、検察官は、当事者の一方が死亡した後は、これを請求することができない。 art-744/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-744/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-744/par-1 Either of the parties, their relatives, or the public prosecutor may request the family court to cancel the marriage if it violates any provision of Article 731, Article 732, or Article 734 through Article 736; provided, however, that the public prosecutor may not request this after the death of one of the parties. machine translation, not official **第二項** 第七百三十二条の規定に違反した婚姻については、前婚の配偶者も、その取消しを請求することができる。 art-744/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-744/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-744/par-2 With regard to a marriage that violates the provisions of Article 732, the spouse in the previous marriage may also request that the marriage be canceled. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-744/par-1: 第七百三十一条 → 民法 第七百三十一条 (Article 731), art-731 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-731 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-731 - art-744/par-1: 第七百三十二条 → 民法 第七百三十二条 (Article 732), art-732 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-732 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-732 - art-744/par-1: 第七百三十四条から第七百三十六条まで → 民法 第七百三十四条 (Article 734), art-734 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-734 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-734 - art-744/par-1: 第七百三十四条から第七百三十六条まで → 民法 第七百三十五条 (Article 735), art-735 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-735 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-735 - art-744/par-1: 第七百三十四条から第七百三十六条まで → 民法 第七百三十六条 (Article 736), art-736 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-736 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-736 - art-744/par-2: 第七百三十二条 → 民法 第七百三十二条 (Article 732), art-732 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-732 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-732 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 第七百四十三条第一項（婚姻の取消し） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-743/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-743/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 2 of 2) (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4275/tb), 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 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch civil-code-20261011T170941-001, translated 2026-10-12 - This site's parser, version 190 — 民法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-11