# 民法 / Civil Code — 第七百四十七条 (Article 747) - 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: 第七百四十七条 (Article 747)（詐欺又は強迫による婚姻の取消し） — address `art-747` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-747 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-747 - 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. --- ### 第七百四十七条（詐欺又は強迫による婚姻の取消し） — (Cancellation of a Marriage Resulting from Fraud or Duress) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-747 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-747 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-747 **第一項** 詐欺又は強迫によって婚姻をした者は、その婚姻の取消しを家庭裁判所に請求することができる。 art-747/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-747/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-747/par-1 A person who has married due to fraud or duress may request the family court to cancel the marriage. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の規定による取消権は、当事者が、詐欺を発見し、若しくは強迫を免れた後三箇月を経過し、又は追認をしたときは、消滅する。 art-747/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-747/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-747/par-2 The right to cancel a marriage as under the preceding paragraph expires if, after discovering the fraud or escaping from the duress, the party allows three months to pass or ratifies the marriage. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-747/par-2: 前項 → 民法 第七百四十七条第一項 (Article 747, paragraph (1)), art-747/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-747/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-747/par-1 ## Cited by 5 provisions cite 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 - 民法 第七百四十七条第二項（詐欺又は強迫による婚姻の取消し） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-747/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-747/par-2 - 民法 第七百六十四条第一項（婚姻の規定の準用） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-764/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-764/par-1 - 民法 第八百八条第一項（婚姻の取消し等の規定の準用） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-808/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-808/par-1 - 民法 第八百十二条第一項（婚姻の規定の準用） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-812/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-812/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 - This site's parser, version 190 — 民法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-11