# 民法 / Civil Code — 第九百二十八条 (Article 928) - 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: 第九百二十八条 (Article 928)（公告期間満了前の弁済の拒絶） — address `art-928` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-928 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-928 - 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. --- ### 第九百二十八条（公告期間満了前の弁済の拒絶） — (Refusal of Payment or Delivery before Expiration of the Period under Public Notice) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-928 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-928 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-928 **第一項** 限定承認者は、前条第一項の期間の満了前には、相続債権者及び受遺者に対して弁済を拒むことができる。 art-928/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-928/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-928/par-1 An heir asserting a qualified acceptance may refuse payment or delivery to a creditor of the succession or legatee before the expiration of the period referred to in paragraph (1) of the preceding Article. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-928/par-1: 前条第一項 → 民法 第九百二十七条第一項 (Article 927, paragraph (1)), art-927/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-927/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-927/par-1 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 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 - 民法 第九百五十条第二項（相続人の債権者の請求による財産分離） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-950/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-950/par-2 - 民法 第九百五十七条第二項（相続債権者及び受遺者に対する弁済） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-957/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-957/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