# 民法 / Civil Code — 第九百五十五条 (Article 955) - 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: 第九百五十五条 (Article 955)（相続財産法人の不成立） — address `art-955` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-955 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-955 - 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. --- ### 第九百五十五条（相続財産法人の不成立） — (Non-formation of an Estate Corporation) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-955 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-955 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-955 **第一項** 相続人のあることが明らかになったときは、第九百五十一条の法人は、成立しなかったものとみなす。ただし、相続財産の清算人がその権限内でした行為の効力を妨げない。 art-955/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-955/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-955/par-1 If it becomes evident that there is an heir, the corporation referred to in Article 951 is deemed not to have been formed; provided, however, that this does not prevent the validity of an action taken by the Liquidator of the Estate that is within the scope of the authority thereof. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-955/par-1: 第九百五十一条 → 民法 第九百五十一条 (Article 951), art-951 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-951 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-951 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 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