# 民法 / Civil Code — 第八百七十三条 (Article 873) - 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: 第八百七十三条 (Article 873)（返還金に対する利息の支払等） — address `art-873` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-873 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-873 - 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. --- ### 第八百七十三条（返還金に対する利息の支払等） — (Payment of Interest against Money Refunded) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-873 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-873 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-873 **第一項** 後見人が被後見人に返還すべき金額及び被後見人が後見人に返還すべき金額には、後見の計算が終了した時から、利息を付さなければならない。 art-873/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-873/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-873/par-1 Interest must be calculated to accrue on money to be refunded by the guardian to the ward and money to be refunded by the ward to the guardian from the time the accounting for the guardianship is finalized. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 後見人は、自己のために被後見人の金銭を消費したときは、その消費の時から、これに利息を付さなければならない。この場合において、なお損害があるときは、その賠償の責任を負う。 art-873/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-873/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-873/par-2 If the guardian expends the ward's money for the benefit of the guardian, interest must be calculated to accrue on that money from the time of the expenditure. In such a case, if further damage is incurred by the ward, the guardian is liable for compensation. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 第八百七十六条の五第三項（保佐の事務及び保佐人の任務の終了等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-876-5/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-876-5/par-3 - 民法 第八百七十六条の十第二項（補助の事務及び補助人の任務の終了等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-876-10/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-876-10/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