# 民法 / Civil Code — 第九百三十二条 (Article 932) - 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: 第九百三十二条 (Article 932)（弁済のための相続財産の換価） — address `art-932` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-932 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-932 - 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. --- ### 第九百三十二条（弁済のための相続財産の換価） — (Realization of the Estate for Payment of Claims) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-932 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-932 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-932 **第一項** 前三条の規定に従って弁済をするにつき相続財産を売却する必要があるときは、限定承認者は、これを競売に付さなければならない。ただし、家庭裁判所が選任した鑑定人の評価に従い相続財産の全部又は一部の価額を弁済して、その競売を止めることができる。 art-932/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-932/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-932/par-1 If it is necessary to sell off the estate in order to make payment or delivery in accordance with the provisions of the preceding three Articles, an heir asserting a qualified acceptance must put the estate up for auction; provided, however, that the heir may prevent such an auction by paying the value of all or part the estate in accordance with the valuation of the appraiser appointed by the family court. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-932/par-1: 前三条 → 民法 第九百二十九条 (Article 929), art-929 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-929 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-929 - art-932/par-1: 前三条 → 民法 第九百三十条 (Article 930), art-930 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-930 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-930 - art-932/par-1: 前三条 → 民法 第九百三十一条 (Article 931), art-931 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-931 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-931 ## Cited by 4 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 第九百四十七条第三項（相続債権者及び受遺者に対する弁済） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-947/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-947/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