# 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)（遺言執行者の権利義務等に関する経過措置） — address `suppl-4301-72/art-8` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/suppl-4301-72/art-8 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-4301-72/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（遺言執行者の権利義務等に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures Concerning Rights and Duties of Executor, etc. caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4301-72/art-8 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/suppl-4301-72/art-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-4301-72/art-8 **第一項** 新民法第千七条第二項及び第千十二条の規定は、施行日前に開始した相続に関し、施行日以後に遺言執行者となる者にも、適用する。 suppl-4301-72/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/suppl-4301-72/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-4301-72/art-8/par-1 The provisions of Article 1007, paragraph (2) and Article 1012 of the New Civil Code also apply to a person who becomes an executor on or after the Effective Date with regard to succession that commenced before the Effective Date. machine translation, not official **第二項** 新民法第千十四条第二項から第四項までの規定は、施行日前にされた特定の財産に関する遺言に係る遺言執行者によるその執行については、適用しない。 suppl-4301-72/art-8/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/suppl-4301-72/art-8/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-4301-72/art-8/par-2 The provisions of Article 1014, paragraphs (2) through (4) of the New Civil Code do not apply to the execution, by an executor, of a will that concerns specific property and was made before the Effective Date. machine translation, not official **第三項** 施行日前にされた遺言に係る遺言執行者の復任権については、新民法第千十六条の規定にかかわらず、なお従前の例による。 suppl-4301-72/art-8/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/suppl-4301-72/art-8/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-4301-72/art-8/par-3 With regard to the right of an executor of a will made before the Effective Date to appoint a subagent, the provisions then in force continue to govern, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 1016 of the New Civil Code. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4301-72/art-8/par-1: 新民法第千七条第二項 → 民法 第千七条第二項 (Article 1007, paragraph (2)), art-1007/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-1007/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-1007/par-2 - suppl-4301-72/art-8/par-1: 第千十二条 → 民法 第千十二条 (Article 1012), art-1012 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-1012 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-1012 - suppl-4301-72/art-8/par-2: 新民法第千十四条第二項から第四項まで → 民法 第千十四条第二項 (Article 1014, paragraph (2)), art-1014/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-1014/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-1014/par-2 - suppl-4301-72/art-8/par-2: 新民法第千十四条第二項から第四項まで → 民法 第千十四条第三項 (Article 1014, paragraph (3)), art-1014/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-1014/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-1014/par-3 - suppl-4301-72/art-8/par-2: 新民法第千十四条第二項から第四項まで → 民法 第千十四条第四項 (Article 1014, paragraph (4)), art-1014/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-1014/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-1014/par-4 - suppl-4301-72/art-8/par-3: 新民法第千十六条 → 民法 第千十六条 (Article 1016), art-1016 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-1016 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-1016 --- ## 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-20261011T170941-024, translated 2026-10-12 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch civil-code-20261011T170941-025, translated 2026-10-12 - This site's parser, version 190 — 民法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-11