# 民法 / Civil Code — 第七百七十三条 (Article 773)

- 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: 第七百七十三条 (Article 773)（父を定めることを目的とする訴え） — address `art-773`
- Text in force since: 2026-06-24
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-773
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-773
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### 第七百七十三条（父を定めることを目的とする訴え） — (Action to Determine Paternity)
<sup>caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>
<sup>art-773 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-773 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-773</sup>

    **第一項**  第七百三十二条の規定に違反して婚姻をした女が出産した場合において、前条の規定によりその子の父を定めることができないときは、裁判所が、これを定める。
    <sup>art-773/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-773/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-773/par-1</sup>
    If a woman marrying in violation of the provisions of Article 732 gives birth and the paternity of the child cannot be determined pursuant to the provisions of the preceding Article, the court determines the paternity of the child.
    <sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- art-773/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-773/par-1: 前条 → 民法 第七百七十二条 (Article 772), art-772 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-772 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-772

## Cited by

1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 戸籍法 第五十四条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/family-register-act/art-54/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000224/art-54/par-1

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## 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