# 民法 / Civil Code — 第九百五十六条 (Article 956) - 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: 第九百五十六条 (Article 956)（相続財産の清算人の代理権の消滅） — address `art-956` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-956 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-956 - 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. --- ### 第九百五十六条（相続財産の清算人の代理権の消滅） — Extinguishment of the Liquidator of the Estate's Authority to Represent caption: machine translation, not official art-956 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-956 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-956 **第一項** 相続財産の清算人の代理権は、相続人が相続の承認をした時に消滅する。 art-956/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-956/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-956/par-1 The Liquidator of the Estate's authority to represent is extinguished once an heir accepts the succession. machine translation, not official **第二項** 前項の場合には、相続財産の清算人は、遅滞なく相続人に対して清算に係る計算をしなければならない。 art-956/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-956/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-956/par-2 In a case as referred to in the preceding paragraph, the Liquidator of the Estate must give an account of the liquidation to the heir without delay. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-956/par-2: 前項 → 民法 第九百五十六条第一項 (Article 956, paragraph (1)), art-956/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-956/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-956/par-1 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 第九百五十六条第二項（相続財産の清算人の代理権の消滅） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-956/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-956/par-2 - 民法 第九百五十九条第一項（残余財産の国庫への帰属） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-959/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-959/par-1 - 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 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