# 民法 / Civil Code — 第七百七十二条 (Article 772) - 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: 第七百七十二条 (Article 772)（嫡出の推定） — address `art-772` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-772 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-772 - 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. --- ### 第七百七十二条（嫡出の推定） — (Presumption of Child in Wedlock) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-772 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-772 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-772 **第一項** 妻が婚姻中に懐胎した子は、当該婚姻における夫の子と推定する。女が婚姻前に懐胎した子であって、婚姻が成立した後に生まれたものも、同様とする。 art-772/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-772/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-772/par-1 A child conceived by a wife during the marriage is presumed to be the child of the husband in that marriage. The same applies to a child conceived by a woman before the marriage and born after the marriage is formed. machine translation, not official **第二項** 前項の場合において、婚姻の成立の日から二百日以内に生まれた子は、婚姻前に懐胎したものと推定し、婚姻の成立の日から二百日を経過した後又は婚姻の解消若しくは取消しの日から三百日以内に生まれた子は、婚姻中に懐胎したものと推定する。 art-772/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-772/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-772/par-2 In the case referred to in the preceding paragraph, a child born within 200 days of the formation of a marriage is presumed to have been conceived before the marriage, and a child born more than 200 days after the formation of a marriage or within 300 days of the dissolution or cancellation of a marriage is presumed to have been conceived during the marriage. machine translation, not official **第三項** 第一項の場合において、女が子を懐胎した時から子の出生の時までの間に二以上の婚姻をしていたときは、その子は、その出生の直近の婚姻における夫の子と推定する。 art-772/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-772/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-772/par-3 In the case referred to in paragraph (1), if a woman has entered into two or more marriages between the time she conceived the child and the time of the child's birth, the child is presumed to be the child of the husband in the most recent marriage as of the child's birth. machine translation, not official **第四項** 前三項の規定により父が定められた子について、第七百七十四条の規定によりその父の嫡出であることが否認された場合における前項の規定の適用については、同項中「直近の婚姻」とあるのは、「直近の婚姻（第七百七十四条の規定により子がその嫡出であることが否認された夫との間の婚姻を除く。）」とする。 art-772/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-772/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-772/par-4 In the application of the preceding paragraph to a child for whom a father has been determined under the preceding three paragraphs in a case where it has been rebutted under Article 774 that the child is the child in wedlock of that father, the phrase "the most recent marriage" in that paragraph is deemed to be replaced with "the most recent marriage (excluding the marriage with the husband as to whom the presumption that the child is his child in wedlock has been rebutted under Article 774)". machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-772/par-2: 前項 → 民法 第七百七十二条第一項 (Article 772, paragraph (1)), art-772/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-772/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-772/par-1 - art-772/par-3: 第一項 → 民法 第七百七十二条第一項 (Article 772, paragraph (1)), art-772/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-772/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-772/par-1 - art-772/par-4: 前三項 → 民法 第七百七十二条第一項 (Article 772, paragraph (1)), art-772/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-772/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-772/par-1 - art-772/par-4: 前三項 → 民法 第七百七十二条第二項 (Article 772, paragraph (2)), art-772/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-772/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-772/par-2 - art-772/par-4: 前三項 → 民法 第七百七十二条第三項 (Article 772, paragraph (3)), art-772/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-772/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-772/par-3 - art-772/par-4: 第七百七十四条 → 民法 第七百七十四条 (Article 774), art-774 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-774 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-774 ## Cited by 12 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 第七百七十二条第二項（嫡出の推定） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-772/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-772/par-2 - 民法 第七百七十二条第三項（嫡出の推定） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-772/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-772/par-3 - 民法 第七百七十二条第四項（嫡出の推定） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-772/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-772/par-4 - 民法 第七百七十三条第一項（父を定めることを目的とする訴え） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-773/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-773/par-1 - 民法 第七百七十四条第一項（嫡出の否認） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-774/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-774/par-1 - 民法 第七百七十四条第四項（嫡出の否認） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-774/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-774/par-4 - 民法 第七百七十四条第五項（嫡出の否認） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-774/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-774/par-5 - 民法 第七百七十八条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-778/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-778/par-1 - 民法 第七百七十八条第一項第一号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-778/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-778/par-1/item-1 - 民法 第七百七十八条の四第一項（相続の開始後に新たに子と推定された者の価額の支払請求権） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-778-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-778-4/par-1 - 民法 第七百八十三条第二項（胎児又は死亡した子の認知） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-783/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-783/par-2 - 民法 附則第三条第一項（嫡出の推定に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/suppl-5041-102/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-5041-102/art-3/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-20261011T170941-002, translated 2026-10-12 - This site's parser, version 190 — 民法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-11