# 民法 / Civil Code — 第八百六十七条 (Article 867) - 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: 第八百六十七条 (Article 867)（未成年被後見人に代わる親権の行使） — address `art-867` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-867 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-867 - 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. --- ### 第八百六十七条（未成年被後見人に代わる親権の行使） — (Exercising Parental Authority in Place of a Minor Ward) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-867 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-867 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-867 **第一項** 未成年後見人は、未成年被後見人に代わって親権を行う。 art-867/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-867/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-867/par-1 The guardian of a minor acts in place of the minor ward in exercising any parental authority the ward holds. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 第八百五十三条から第八百五十七条まで及び第八百六十一条から前条までの規定は、前項の場合について準用する。 art-867/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-867/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-867/par-2 The provisions of Article 853 through Article 857 and Article 861 through Article 866 apply mutatis mutandis to a case as referred to in the preceding paragraph. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-867/par-2: 第八百五十三条から第八百五十七条まで → 民法 第八百五十三条 (Article 853), art-853 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-853 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-853 - art-867/par-2: 第八百五十三条から第八百五十七条まで → 民法 第八百五十四条 (Article 854), art-854 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-854 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-854 - art-867/par-2: 第八百五十三条から第八百五十七条まで → 民法 第八百五十五条 (Article 855), art-855 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-855 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-855 - art-867/par-2: 第八百五十三条から第八百五十七条まで → 民法 第八百五十六条 (Article 856), art-856 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-856 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-856 - art-867/par-2: 第八百五十三条から第八百五十七条まで → 民法 第八百五十七条 (Article 857), art-857 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-857 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-857 - art-867/par-2: 第八百六十一条から前条まで → 民法 第八百六十一条 (Article 861), art-861 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-861 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-861 - art-867/par-2: 第八百六十一条から前条まで → 民法 第八百六十二条 (Article 862), art-862 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-862 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-862 - art-867/par-2: 第八百六十一条から前条まで → 民法 第八百六十三条 (Article 863), art-863 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-863 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-863 - art-867/par-2: 第八百六十一条から前条まで → 民法 第八百六十四条 (Article 864), art-864 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-864 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-864 - art-867/par-2: 第八百六十一条から前条まで → 民法 第八百六十五条 (Article 865), art-865 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-865 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-865 - art-867/par-2: 第八百六十一条から前条まで → 民法 第八百六十六条 (Article 866), art-866 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-866 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-866 - art-867/par-2: 前項 → 民法 第八百六十七条第一項 (Article 867, paragraph (1)), art-867/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-867/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-867/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 第八百六十七条第二項（未成年被後見人に代わる親権の行使） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-867/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-867/par-2 --- ## 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