# 民法 / Civil Code — 第二十条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 20) - 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: 第二十条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 20)（不可分債権、不可分債務、連帯債権及び連帯債務に関する経過措置） — address `suppl-4291-44/art-20` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/suppl-4291-44/art-20 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-4291-44/art-20 - 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. --- ### 第二十条（不可分債権、不可分債務、連帯債権及び連帯債務に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures Concerning Indivisible Claims, Indivisible Obligations, Joint and Several Claims, and Joint and Several Obligations caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4291-44/art-20 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/suppl-4291-44/art-20 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-4291-44/art-20 **第一項** 施行日前に生じた旧法第四百二十八条に規定する不可分債権（その原因である法律行為が施行日前にされたものを含む。）については、なお従前の例による。 suppl-4291-44/art-20/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/suppl-4291-44/art-20/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-4291-44/art-20/par-1 With regard to an indivisible claim prescribed in Article 428 of the Former Act that arose before the Effective Date (including one for which the juridical act that is its cause was performed before the Effective Date), the provisions then in force continue to govern. machine translation, not official **第二項** 施行日前に生じた旧法第四百三十条に規定する不可分債務及び旧法第四百三十二条に規定する連帯債務（これらの原因である法律行為が施行日前にされたものを含む。）については、なお従前の例による。 suppl-4291-44/art-20/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/suppl-4291-44/art-20/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-4291-44/art-20/par-2 With regard to an indivisible obligation prescribed in Article 430 of the Former Act and a joint and several obligation prescribed in Article 432 of the Former Act that arose before the Effective Date (including those for which the juridical act that is their cause was performed before the Effective Date), the provisions then in force continue to govern. machine translation, not official **第三項** 新法第四百三十二条から第四百三十五条の二までの規定は、施行日前に生じた新法第四百三十二条に規定する債権（その原因である法律行為が施行日前にされたものを含む。）については、適用しない。 suppl-4291-44/art-20/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/suppl-4291-44/art-20/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-4291-44/art-20/par-3 The provisions of Articles 432 through 435-2 of the New Act do not apply to a claim prescribed in Article 432 of the New Act that arose before the Effective Date (including one for which the juridical act that is its cause was performed before the Effective Date). machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4291-44/art-20/par-3: 新法第四百三十二条から第四百三十五条の二まで → 民法 第四百三十二条 (Article 432), art-432 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-432 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-432 - suppl-4291-44/art-20/par-3: 新法第四百三十二条から第四百三十五条の二まで → 民法 第四百三十三条 (Article 433), art-433 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-433 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-433 - suppl-4291-44/art-20/par-3: 新法第四百三十二条から第四百三十五条の二まで → 民法 第四百三十四条 (Article 434), art-434 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-434 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-434 - suppl-4291-44/art-20/par-3: 新法第四百三十二条から第四百三十五条の二まで → 民法 第四百三十五条 (Article 435), art-435 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-435 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-435 - suppl-4291-44/art-20/par-3: 新法第四百三十二条から第四百三十五条の二まで → 民法 第四百三十五条の二 (Article 435-2), art-435-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-435-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-435-2 --- ## 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-20261011T170941-022, translated 2026-10-12 - This site's parser, version 190 — 民法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-11