# 民法 / Civil Code — 第八条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 8) - 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: 第八条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 8) — address `suppl-3221-222/art-8` - 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-8 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-3221-222/art-8 - 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. --- ### 第八条 suppl-3221-222/art-8 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/suppl-3221-222/art-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-3221-222/art-8 **第一項** 新法施行前にした婚姻が旧法によつて取り消すことができる場合でも、その取消の原因である事項が新法に定めてないときは、その婚姻は、これを取り消すことができない。 suppl-3221-222/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/suppl-3221-222/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-3221-222/art-8/par-1 Even where a marriage contracted before the New Act came into effect may be cancelled under the Former Act, if the matter constituting the ground for cancellation is not provided for in the New Act, that marriage may not be cancelled. machine translation, not official ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 附則第十三条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/suppl-3221-222/art-13/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-3221-222/art-13/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-20261011T170941-011, translated 2026-10-12 - This site's parser, version 190 — 民法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-11