# 民法 / Civil Code — 第八百条 (Article 800) - 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: 第八百条 (Article 800)（縁組の届出の受理） — address `art-800` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-800 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-800 - 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. --- ### 第八百条（縁組の届出の受理） — (Acceptance of Application to Register an Adoption) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-800 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-800 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-800 **第一項** 縁組の届出は、その縁組が第七百九十二条から前条までの規定その他の法令の規定に違反しないことを認めた後でなければ、受理することができない。 art-800/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-800/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-800/par-1 It is not permissible to accept an application to register an adoption until the adoption has been found not to violate any of the provisions of Article 792 through Article 799 or the provisions of any other law or regulation. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-800/par-1: 第七百九十二条から前条まで → 民法 第七百九十二条 (Article 792), art-792 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-792 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-792 - art-800/par-1: 第七百九十二条から前条まで → 民法 第七百九十三条 (Article 793), art-793 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-793 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-793 - art-800/par-1: 第七百九十二条から前条まで → 民法 第七百九十四条 (Article 794), art-794 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-794 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-794 - art-800/par-1: 第七百九十二条から前条まで → 民法 第七百九十五条 (Article 795), art-795 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-795 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-795 - art-800/par-1: 第七百九十二条から前条まで → 民法 第七百九十六条 (Article 796), art-796 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-796 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-796 - art-800/par-1: 第七百九十二条から前条まで → 民法 第七百九十七条 (Article 797), art-797 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-797 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-797 - art-800/par-1: 第七百九十二条から前条まで → 民法 第七百九十八条 (Article 798), art-798 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-798 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-798 - art-800/par-1: 第七百九十二条から前条まで → 民法 第七百九十九条 (Article 799), art-799 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-799 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-799 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 第八百一条第一項（外国に在る日本人間の縁組の方式） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-801/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-801/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