# 民法 / Civil Code — 第九百三十三条 (Article 933) - 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: 第九百三十三条 (Article 933)（相続債権者及び受遺者の換価手続への参加） — address `art-933` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-933 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-933 - 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. --- ### 第九百三十三条（相続債権者及び受遺者の換価手続への参加） — (Participation of Creditors of the Succession and Legatees in the Realization Process) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-933 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-933 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-933 **第一項** 相続債権者及び受遺者は、自己の費用で、相続財産の競売又は鑑定に参加することができる。この場合においては、第二百六十条第二項の規定を準用する。 art-933/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-933/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-933/par-1 A creditor of the succession or legatee, at the creditor's or legatee's own expense, may participate in the auction or appraisal of the estate. The provisions of Article 260, paragraph (2) apply mutatis mutandis in such a case. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-933/par-1: 第二百六十条第二項 → 民法 第二百六十条第二項 (Article 260, paragraph (2)), art-260/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-260/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-260/par-2 ## 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