# 民法 / Civil Code — 第九百七十七条 (Article 977) - 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: 第九百七十七条 (Article 977)（伝染病隔離者の遺言） — address `art-977` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-977 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-977 - 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. --- ### 第九百七十七条（伝染病隔離者の遺言） — (Will of a Person under Quarantine) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-977 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-977 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-977 **第一項** 伝染病のため行政処分によって交通を断たれた場所に在る者は、警察官一人及び証人一人以上の立会いをもって遺言書を作ることができる。 art-977/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-977/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-977/par-1 A person that, due to a communicable disease, is in a place that has been isolated pursuant to an administrative disposition may make a will in the presence of one police official and at least one witness. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 第九百八十条第一項（遺言関係者の署名及び押印） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-980/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-980/par-1 - 民法 第九百八十一条第一項（署名又は押印が不能の場合） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-981/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-981/par-1 - 民法 第九百八十二条第一項（普通の方式による遺言の規定の準用） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-982/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-982/par-1 - 民法 第九百八十三条第一項（特別の方式による遺言の効力） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-983/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-983/par-1 --- ## 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