# 民法 / Civil Code — 第千十四条 (Article 1014) - 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: 第千十四条 (Article 1014)（特定財産に関する遺言の執行） — address `art-1014` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-1014 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-1014 - 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. --- ### 第千十四条（特定財産に関する遺言の執行） — (Execution of the Testator's Will Concerning Specific Property) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-1014 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-1014 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-1014 **第一項** 前三条の規定は、遺言が相続財産のうち特定の財産に関する場合には、その財産についてのみ適用する。 art-1014/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-1014/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-1014/par-1 If a testator's will concerns specific property from among the estate, the provisions of Articles 1011 through 1013 apply only with respect to that specific property. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 遺産の分割の方法の指定として遺産に属する特定の財産を共同相続人の一人又は数人に承継させる旨の遺言（以下「特定財産承継遺言」という。）があったときは、遺言執行者は、当該共同相続人が第八百九十九条の二第一項に規定する対抗要件を備えるために必要な行為をすることができる。 art-1014/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-1014/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-1014/par-2 If there is a will to the effect that specific property belonging to the estate is to be succeeded to by one or several of the coheirs as a designation of how the estate is divided (hereinafter referred to as a "will for succession of specific property"), the executor may take the actions necessary for that coheir to satisfy the requirements of perfection prescribed in Article 899-2, paragraph (1). machine translation, not official **第三項** 前項の財産が預貯金債権である場合には、遺言執行者は、同項に規定する行為のほか、その預金又は貯金の払戻しの請求及びその預金又は貯金に係る契約の解約の申入れをすることができる。ただし、解約の申入れについては、その預貯金債権の全部が特定財産承継遺言の目的である場合に限る。 art-1014/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-1014/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-1014/par-3 If the property referred to in the preceding paragraph is a claim for deposits, the executor may, in addition to the actions prescribed in that paragraph, request the withdrawal of those deposits or savings and give notice of termination of the contract relating to those deposits or savings; provided, however, that notice of termination may be given only if the whole of the claim for deposits is the object of a will for succession of specific property. machine translation, not official **第四項** 前二項の規定にかかわらず、被相続人が遺言で別段の意思を表示したときは、その意思に従う。 art-1014/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-1014/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-1014/par-4 Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding two paragraphs, if the decedent has manifested a different intention by will, that intention prevails. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-1014/par-1: 前三条 → 民法 第千十一条 (Article 1011), art-1011 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-1011 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-1011 - art-1014/par-1: 前三条 → 民法 第千十二条 (Article 1012), art-1012 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-1012 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-1012 - art-1014/par-1: 前三条 → 民法 第千十三条 (Article 1013), art-1013 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-1013 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-1013 - art-1014/par-2: 第八百九十九条の二第一項 → 民法 第八百九十九条の二第一項 (Article 899-2, paragraph (1)), art-899-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-899-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-899-2/par-1 - art-1014/par-3: 前項 → 民法 第千十四条第二項 (Article 1014, paragraph (2)), art-1014/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-1014/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-1014/par-2 - art-1014/par-4: 前二項 → 民法 第千十四条第二項 (Article 1014, paragraph (2)), art-1014/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-1014/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-1014/par-2 - art-1014/par-4: 前二項 → 民法 第千十四条第三項 (Article 1014, paragraph (3)), art-1014/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-1014/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-1014/par-3 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 第千十四条第三項（特定財産に関する遺言の執行） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-1014/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-1014/par-3 - 民法 第千十四条第四項（特定財産に関する遺言の執行） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-1014/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-1014/par-4 - 民法 附則第八条第二項（遺言執行者の権利義務等に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/suppl-4301-72/art-8/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-4301-72/art-8/par-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 2 of 2) (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4275/tb), 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-20261011T170941-008, translated 2026-10-12 - This site's parser, version 190 — 民法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-11