# 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)（経過措置の原則） — address `suppl-4161-147/art-2` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/suppl-4161-147/art-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-4161-147/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（経過措置の原則） — Principles of Transitional Measures caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4161-147/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/suppl-4161-147/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-4161-147/art-2 **第一項** この法律による改正後の民法（以下「新法」という。）の規定は、次条及び附則第四条（第三項及び第五項を除く。）の規定による場合を除き、この法律の施行前に生じた事項にも適用する。ただし、この法律による改正前の民法の規定によって生じた効力を妨げない。 suppl-4161-147/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/suppl-4161-147/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-4161-147/art-2/par-1 The provisions of the Civil Code as amended by this Act (hereinafter referred to as the "New Act") also apply to matters that arose before this Act comes into effect, except in the cases provided for in the following Article and Article 4 of the Supplementary Provisions (excluding paragraphs (3) and (5)); provided, however, that this does not preclude the effect that arose under the provisions of the Civil Code before amendment by this Act. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4161-147/art-2/par-1: 次条 → 民法 附則第三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3), suppl-4161-147/art-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/suppl-4161-147/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-4161-147/art-3 - suppl-4161-147/art-2/par-1: 附則第四条 → 民法 附則第四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4), suppl-4161-147/art-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/suppl-4161-147/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-4161-147/art-4 - suppl-4161-147/art-2/par-1: 第三項 → 民法 附則第四条第三項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4, paragraph (3)), suppl-4161-147/art-4/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/suppl-4161-147/art-4/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-4161-147/art-4/par-3 - suppl-4161-147/art-2/par-1: 第五項 → 民法 附則第四条第五項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4, paragraph (5)), suppl-4161-147/art-4/par-5 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/suppl-4161-147/art-4/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-4161-147/art-4/par-5 --- ## 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-20261011T170941-018, translated 2026-10-12 - This site's parser, version 190 — 民法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-11