# 民法 / Civil Code — 第九百九十八条 (Article 998) - 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: 第九百九十八条 (Article 998)（遺贈義務者の引渡義務） — address `art-998` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-998 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-998 - 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. --- ### 第九百九十八条（遺贈義務者の引渡義務） — Obligation of the Person Obligated to Perform a Legacy to Deliver caption: machine translation, not official art-998 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-998 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-998 **第一項** 遺贈義務者は、遺贈の目的である物又は権利を、相続開始の時（その後に当該物又は権利について遺贈の目的として特定した場合にあっては、その特定した時）の状態で引き渡し、又は移転する義務を負う。ただし、遺言者がその遺言に別段の意思を表示したときは、その意思に従う。 art-998/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-998/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-998/par-1 A person charged with a legacy is obligated to deliver or transfer the thing or right that is the object of the legacy in the condition it was in at the time of the opening of succession (or, if the thing or right was specified as the object of the legacy after that, at the time it was specified); provided, however, that if the testator manifests a different intention in the will, that intention prevails. machine translation, not official ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 附則第七条第一項（遺贈義務者の引渡義務等に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/suppl-4301-72/art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-4301-72/art-7/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 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 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch civil-code-20261011T211255-001, translated 2026-10-12 - This site's parser, version 190 — 民法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-11