# 民法 / Civil Code — 第千十八条 (Article 1018) - 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: 第千十八条 (Article 1018)（遺言執行者の報酬） — address `art-1018` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-1018 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-1018 - 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. --- ### 第千十八条（遺言執行者の報酬） — (Remuneration of Executor) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-1018 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-1018 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-1018 **第一項** 家庭裁判所は、相続財産の状況その他の事情によって遺言執行者の報酬を定めることができる。ただし、遺言者がその遺言に報酬を定めたときは、この限りでない。 art-1018/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-1018/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-1018/par-1 The family court may set the remuneration of an executor based on the condition of the estate and other circumstances; provided, however, that this does not apply if the testator specifies the remuneration in the will. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 第六百四十八条第二項及び第三項並びに第六百四十八条の二の規定は、遺言執行者が報酬を受けるべき場合について準用する。 art-1018/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-1018/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-1018/par-2 The provisions of Article 648, paragraphs (2) and (3) and Article 648-2 apply mutatis mutandis when an executor receives remuneration. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-1018/par-2: 第六百四十八条第二項 → 民法 第六百四十八条第二項 (Article 648, paragraph (2)), art-648/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-648/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-648/par-2 - art-1018/par-2: 第三項 → 民法 第六百四十八条第三項 (Article 648, paragraph (3)), art-648/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-648/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-648/par-3 - art-1018/par-2: 第六百四十八条の二 → 民法 第六百四十八条の二 (Article 648-2), art-648-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-648-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-648-2 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 附則第三十六条第一項（遺言執行者の報酬に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/suppl-4291-44/art-36/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-4291-44/art-36/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 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