# 民法 / Civil Code — 第九百二十六条 (Article 926) - 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: 第九百二十六条 (Article 926)（限定承認者による管理） — address `art-926` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-926 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-926 - 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. --- ### 第九百二十六条（限定承認者による管理） — (Administration by an Heir Asserting a Qualified Acceptance) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-926 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-926 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-926 **第一項** 限定承認者は、その固有財産におけるのと同一の注意をもって、相続財産の管理を継続しなければならない。 art-926/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-926/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-926/par-1 An heir asserting a qualified acceptance must continue to administer the estate with the same care that the heir would exercise over the heir's own property. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 第六百四十五条、第六百四十六条並びに第六百五十条第一項及び第二項の規定は、前項の場合について準用する。 art-926/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-926/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-926/par-2 Article 645; Article 646; and Article 650, paragraph (1) and paragraph (2) apply mutatis mutandis to a case as referred to in the preceding paragraph. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-926/par-2: 第六百四十五条 → 民法 第六百四十五条 (Article 645), art-645 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-645 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-645 - art-926/par-2: 第六百四十六条 → 民法 第六百四十六条 (Article 646), art-646 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-646 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-646 - art-926/par-2: 第六百五十条第一項 → 民法 第六百五十条第一項 (Article 650, paragraph (1)), art-650/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-650/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-650/par-1 - art-926/par-2: 第二項 → 民法 第六百五十条第二項 (Article 650, paragraph (2)), art-650/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-650/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-650/par-2 - art-926/par-2: 前項 → 民法 第九百二十六条第一項 (Article 926, paragraph (1)), art-926/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-926/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-926/par-1 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 第九百二十六条第二項（限定承認者による管理） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-926/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-926/par-2 - 民法 第九百三十六条第三項（相続人が数人ある場合の相続財産の清算人） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-936/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-936/par-3 --- ## 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