# 民法 / Civil Code — 第二十五条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 25) - 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: 第二十五条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 25)（弁済に関する経過措置） — address `suppl-4291-44/art-25` - 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-25 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-4291-44/art-25 - 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. --- ### 第二十五条（弁済に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures Concerning Performance caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4291-44/art-25 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/suppl-4291-44/art-25 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-4291-44/art-25 **第一項** 施行日前に債務が生じた場合におけるその債務の弁済については、次項に規定するもののほか、なお従前の例による。 suppl-4291-44/art-25/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/suppl-4291-44/art-25/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-4291-44/art-25/par-1 With regard to the performance of an obligation in the case where the obligation arose before the Effective Date, beyond what is prescribed in the following paragraph, the provisions then in force continue to govern. machine translation, not official **第二項** 施行日前に弁済がされた場合におけるその弁済の充当については、新法第四百八十八条から第四百九十一条までの規定にかかわらず、なお従前の例による。 suppl-4291-44/art-25/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/suppl-4291-44/art-25/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-4291-44/art-25/par-2 With regard to the appropriation of performance in the case where the performance was made before the Effective Date, notwithstanding the provisions of Articles 488 through 491 of the New Act, the provisions then in force continue to govern. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4291-44/art-25/par-1: 次項 → 民法 附則第二十五条第二項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 25, paragraph (2)), suppl-4291-44/art-25/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/suppl-4291-44/art-25/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-4291-44/art-25/par-2 - suppl-4291-44/art-25/par-2: 新法第四百八十八条から第四百九十一条まで → 民法 第四百八十八条 (Article 488), art-488 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-488 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-488 - suppl-4291-44/art-25/par-2: 新法第四百八十八条から第四百九十一条まで → 民法 第四百八十九条 (Article 489), art-489 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-489 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-489 - suppl-4291-44/art-25/par-2: 新法第四百八十八条から第四百九十一条まで → 民法 第四百九十条 (Article 490), art-490 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-490 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-490 - suppl-4291-44/art-25/par-2: 新法第四百八十八条から第四百九十一条まで → 民法 第四百九十一条 (Article 491), art-491 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-491 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-491 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 附則第十七条第一項（債務不履行の責任等に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/suppl-4291-44/art-17/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-4291-44/art-17/par-1 - 民法 附則第二十五条第一項（弁済に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/suppl-4291-44/art-25/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-4291-44/art-25/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-20261011T170941-022, translated 2026-10-12 - This site's parser, version 190 — 民法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-11