# 民法 / Civil Code — 第九百四条 (Article 904) - 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: 第九百四条 (Article 904) — address `art-904` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-904 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-904 - 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. --- ### 第九百四条 art-904 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-904 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-904 **第一項** 前条に規定する贈与の価額は、受贈者の行為によって、その目的である財産が滅失し、又はその価格の増減があったときであっても、相続開始の時においてなお原状のままであるものとみなしてこれを定める。 art-904/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-904/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-904/par-1 Even if the conduct of the donee leads to the loss of the property that was the object of a gift and even if there is a fluctuation in the value of such property, the property is deemed to be in its original state, as it was at the time the succession opened, as regards the determination of the value of the gift as prescribed in the preceding Article. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-904/par-1: 前条 → 民法 第九百三条 (Article 903), art-903 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-903 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-903 ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 第九百四条の三第一項（期間経過後の遺産の分割における相続分） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-904-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-904-3/par-1 - 民法 第千四十四条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-1044/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-1044/par-2 - 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 第千四十七条第二項（受遺者又は受贈者の負担額） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-1047/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-1047/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