# 民法 / Civil Code — 第二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 2) - 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: 第二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 2)（民法の一部改正に伴う経過措置の原則） — address `suppl-4111-149/art-2` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/suppl-4111-149/art-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-4111-149/art-2 - 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. --- ### 第二条（民法の一部改正に伴う経過措置の原則） — Principle of Transitional Measures Accompanying the Partial Amendment of the Civil Code caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4111-149/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/suppl-4111-149/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-4111-149/art-2 **第一項** この法律による改正後の民法（次条において「新法」という。）の規定は、次条第三項の規定による場合を除き、当該改正規定の施行前に生じた事項にも適用する。ただし、改正前の民法（次条において「旧法」という。）の規定によって生じた効力を妨げない。 suppl-4111-149/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/suppl-4111-149/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-4111-149/art-2/par-1 The provisions of the Civil Code as amended by this Act (referred to as the "New Act" in the following Article) also apply to matters that arose before the date on which the relevant amending provisions come into effect, except in the case provided for in paragraph (3) of the following Article; provided, however, that this does not preclude the effect that arose under the provisions of the Civil Code before amendment (referred to as the "Former Act" in the following Article). machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4111-149/art-2/par-1: 次条 → 民法 附則第三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3), suppl-4111-149/art-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/suppl-4111-149/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-4111-149/art-3 - suppl-4111-149/art-2/par-1: 次条第三項 → 民法 附則第三条第三項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3, paragraph (3)), suppl-4111-149/art-3/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/suppl-4111-149/art-3/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-4111-149/art-3/par-3 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 附則第一条第一項（施行期日） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/suppl-4111-149/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-4111-149/art-1/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-20261011T170941-016, translated 2026-10-12 - This site's parser, version 190 — 民法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-11