# 民法 / Civil Code — 第九百二条 (Article 902) - 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: 第九百二条 (Article 902)（遺言による相続分の指定） — address `art-902` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-902 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-902 - 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. --- ### 第九百二条（遺言による相続分の指定） — (Designation of a Person's Share of the Estate by Will) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-902 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-902 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-902 **第一項** 被相続人は、前二条の規定にかかわらず、遺言で、共同相続人の相続分を定め、又はこれを定めることを第三者に委託することができる。 art-902/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-902/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-902/par-1 Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding two Articles, a person leaving an estate may decide by will the share of a coheir or entrust a third party by will with deciding the same. machine translation, not official **第二項** 被相続人が、共同相続人中の一人若しくは数人の相続分のみを定め、又はこれを第三者に定めさせたときは、他の共同相続人の相続分は、前二条の規定により定める。 art-902/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-902/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-902/par-2 If a person leaving an estate decides, or has a third party decide, only one or some of the coheirs' shares in the estate coheir, the shares of the other coheirs are decided pursuant to the provisions of the preceding two Articles. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-902/par-1: 前二条 → 民法 第九百条 (Article 900), art-900 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-900 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-900 - art-902/par-1: 前二条 → 民法 第九百一条 (Article 901), art-901 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-901 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-901 - art-902/par-2: 前二条 → 民法 第九百条 (Article 900), art-900 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-900 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-900 - art-902/par-2: 前二条 → 民法 第九百一条 (Article 901), art-901 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-901 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-901 ## Cited by 7 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 国税通則法 第五条第二項（相続による国税の納付義務の承継） — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-tax-general-rules-act/art-5/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/337AC0000000066/art-5/par-2 - 民法 第八百九十八条第二項（共同相続の効力） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-898/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-898/par-2 - 民法 第九百二条の二第一項（相続分の指定がある場合の債権者の権利の行使） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-902-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-902-2/par-1 - 民法 第九百三条第一項（特別受益者の相続分） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-903/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-903/par-1 - 民法 第九百四条の二第一項（寄与分） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-904-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-904-2/par-1 - 民法 第千四十六条第二項第二号（遺留分侵害額の請求） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-1046/par-2/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-1046/par-2/item-2 - 民法 第千五十条第五項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-1050/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-1050/par-5 --- ## 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-20261011T170941-006, translated 2026-10-12 - This site's parser, version 190 — 民法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-11