# 民法 / Civil Code — 第千十六条 (Article 1016) - 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: 第千十六条 (Article 1016)（遺言執行者の復任権） — address `art-1016` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-1016 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-1016 - 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. --- ### 第千十六条（遺言執行者の復任権） — (Executor's Right to Appoint a Subagent) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-1016 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-1016 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-1016 **第一項** 遺言執行者は、自己の責任で第三者にその任務を行わせることができる。ただし、遺言者がその遺言に別段の意思を表示したときは、その意思に従う。 art-1016/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-1016/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-1016/par-1 An executor may have a third party undertake the duties of executor on the executor's own responsibility; provided, however, that if the testator manifests a different intention by will, that intention prevails. machine translation, not official **第二項** 前項本文の場合において、第三者に任務を行わせることについてやむを得ない事由があるときは、遺言執行者は、相続人に対してその選任及び監督についての責任のみを負う。 art-1016/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-1016/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-1016/par-2 In the case referred to in the main clause of the preceding paragraph, if there is a compelling reason to have a third party undertake the duties, the executor is liable to the heirs only for the appointment and supervision of that third party. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-1016/par-2: 前項 → 民法 第千十六条第一項 (Article 1016, paragraph (1)), art-1016/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-1016/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-1016/par-1 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 第千十六条第二項（遺言執行者の復任権） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-1016/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-1016/par-2 - 民法 附則第八条第三項（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-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-4301-72/art-8/par-3 --- ## 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