# 民法 / Civil Code — 第九百四十条 (Article 940) - 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: 第九百四十条 (Article 940)（相続の放棄をした者による管理） — address `art-940` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-940 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-940 - 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. --- ### 第九百四十条（相続の放棄をした者による管理） — (Administration by a Person Who Has Renounced a Succession) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-940 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-940 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-940 **第一項** 相続の放棄をした者は、その放棄の時に相続財産に属する財産を現に占有しているときは、相続人又は第九百五十二条第一項の相続財産の清算人に対して当該財産を引き渡すまでの間、自己の財産におけるのと同一の注意をもって、その財産を保存しなければならない。 art-940/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-940/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-940/par-1 A person who has renounced a succession and who is in actual possession of property belonging to the estate at the time of the renunciation must preserve that property with the same care that the person would exercise over the person's own property, until delivering it to the heir or to the liquidator of the estate referred to in Article 952, paragraph (1). machine translation, not official **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-940/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-940/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-940/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-940/par-1: 第九百五十二条第一項 → 民法 第九百五十二条第一項 (Article 952, paragraph (1)), art-952/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-952/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-952/par-1 - art-940/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-940/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-940/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-940/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-940/par-2: 前項 → 民法 第九百四十条第一項 (Article 940, paragraph (1)), art-940/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-940/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-940/par-1 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 第九百四十条第二項（相続の放棄をした者による管理） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-940/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-940/par-2 - 民法 附則第四条第二項（相続財産の清算に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/suppl-5031-24/art-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-5031-24/art-4/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 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch civil-code-20261011T170941-007, translated 2026-10-12 - This site's parser, version 190 — 民法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-11