# 民法 / Civil Code — 第八百八十四条 (Article 884) - 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: 第八百八十四条 (Article 884)（相続回復請求権） — address `art-884` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-884 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-884 - 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. --- ### 第八百八十四条（相続回復請求権） — (Right to File for the Recovery of a Succession) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-884 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-884 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-884 **第一項** 相続回復の請求権は、相続人又はその法定代理人が相続権を侵害された事実を知った時から五年間行使しないときは、時効によって消滅する。相続開始の時から二十年を経過したときも、同様とする。 art-884/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-884/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-884/par-1 The right to file for the recovery of a succession is extinguished by the operation of the prescription if it is not exercised within five years of the time when the heir or the legal representative thereof learns of the fact that the right of inheritance has been infringed. The same applies when twenty years have elapsed from the time the succession opened. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 所得税法 第百五十一条の六第一項第二号（遺産分割等があつた場合の修正申告の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/en/income-tax-act/art-151-6/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/340AC0000000033/art-151-6/par-1/item-2 - 相続税法 第三十二条第一項第二号（更正の請求の特則） — https://japanlaw.org/en/inheritance-tax-act/art-32/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000073/art-32/par-1/item-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