# 民法 / Civil Code — 制定文（三） (Enacting Statement 3)

- 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: 制定文（三） (Enacting Statement 3) — address `enact-3`
- Text in force since: 2026-06-24
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/enact-3
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/enact-3
- 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.

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**制定文（三）**  明治二十三年法律第二十八号民法財産編財産取得編債権担保編証拠編ハ此法律発布ノ日ヨリ廃止ス
<sup>enact-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/enact-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/enact-3</sup>
The Property Part, the Acquisition of Property Part, the Security for Claims Part, and the Evidence Part of the Civil Code (Act No. 28 of 1890) are repealed as of the date of promulgation of this Act.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## 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-20261011T170941-001, translated 2026-10-12
- This site's parser, version 190 — 民法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-11