# 民法 / Civil Code — 第二十六条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 26) - 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: 第二十六条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 26) — address `suppl-3221-222/art-26` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/suppl-3221-222/art-26 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-3221-222/art-26 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第二十六条 suppl-3221-222/art-26 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/suppl-3221-222/art-26 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-3221-222/art-26 **第一項** 応急措置法施行の際における戸主が婚姻又は養子縁組によつて他家から入つた者である場合には、その家の家附の継子は、新法施行後に開始する相続に関しては、嫡出である子と同一の権利義務を有する。 suppl-3221-222/art-26/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/suppl-3221-222/art-26/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-3221-222/art-26/par-1 If the head of a household at the time the Emergency Measures Act came into effect is a person who entered from another house through marriage or adoption, the stepchild attached to that house has, with respect to a succession that opens after the New Act comes into effect, the same rights and duties as a child in wedlock. machine translation, not official **第二項** 前項の戸主であつた者について応急措置法施行後新法施行前に相続が開始した場合には、前項の継子は、相続人に対して相続財産の一部の分配を請求することができる。この場合には、第二十七条第二項及び第三項の規定を準用する。 suppl-3221-222/art-26/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/suppl-3221-222/art-26/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-3221-222/art-26/par-2 If succession has opened, after the Emergency Measures Act came into effect and before the New Act came into effect, with respect to the person who was the head of the household referred to in the preceding paragraph, the stepchild referred to in the preceding paragraph may demand that the heirs distribute part of the estate. In this case, the provisions of Article 27, paragraphs (2) and (3) of these Supplementary Provisions apply mutatis mutandis. machine translation, not official **第三項** 前二項の規定は、第一項の戸主であつた者が応急措置法施行後に婚姻の取消若しくは離婚又は縁組の取消若しくは離縁によつて氏を改めた場合には、これを適用しない。 suppl-3221-222/art-26/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/suppl-3221-222/art-26/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-3221-222/art-26/par-3 The provisions of the preceding two paragraphs do not apply if the person who was the head of the household referred to in paragraph (1) has changed surname after the Emergency Measures Act came into effect through the cancellation of a marriage or divorce, or the annulment of an adoption or dissolution of the adoptive relationship. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-3221-222/art-26/par-2: 前項 → 民法 附則第二十六条第一項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 26, paragraph (1)), suppl-3221-222/art-26/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/suppl-3221-222/art-26/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-3221-222/art-26/par-1 - suppl-3221-222/art-26/par-2: 第二十七条第二項 → 民法 附則第二十七条第二項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 27, paragraph (2)), suppl-3221-222/art-27/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/suppl-3221-222/art-27/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-3221-222/art-27/par-2 - suppl-3221-222/art-26/par-2: 第三項 → 民法 附則第二十七条第三項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 27, paragraph (3)), suppl-3221-222/art-27/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/suppl-3221-222/art-27/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-3221-222/art-27/par-3 - suppl-3221-222/art-26/par-3: 前二項 → 民法 附則第二十六条第一項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 26, paragraph (1)), suppl-3221-222/art-26/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/suppl-3221-222/art-26/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-3221-222/art-26/par-1 - suppl-3221-222/art-26/par-3: 前二項 → 民法 附則第二十六条第二項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 26, paragraph (2)), suppl-3221-222/art-26/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/suppl-3221-222/art-26/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-3221-222/art-26/par-2 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 附則第二十六条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/suppl-3221-222/art-26/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-3221-222/art-26/par-2 - 民法 附則第二十六条第三項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/suppl-3221-222/art-26/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-3221-222/art-26/par-3 --- ## 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-20261011T170941-012, translated 2026-10-12 - This site's parser, version 190 — 民法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-11