# 民法 / Civil Code — 第千四十四条 (Article 1044) - 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: 第千四十四条 (Article 1044) — address `art-1044` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-1044 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-1044 - 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. --- ### 第千四十四条 art-1044 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-1044 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-1044 **第一項** 贈与は、相続開始前の一年間にしたものに限り、前条の規定によりその価額を算入する。当事者双方が遺留分権利者に損害を加えることを知って贈与をしたときは、一年前の日より前にしたものについても、同様とする。 art-1044/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-1044/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-1044/par-1 Only gifts made within the one year period before the opening of the succession are included in the calculation pursuant to the provisions of the preceding Article. A gift made more than one year before that day is also included in the calculation if it was made with both parties' knowledge that it would harm persons entitled to the statutory reserved share. machine translation, not official **第二項** 第九百四条の規定は、前項に規定する贈与の価額について準用する。 art-1044/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-1044/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-1044/par-2 The provisions of Article 904 apply mutatis mutandis to the value of gifts prescribed in the preceding paragraph. machine translation, not official **第三項** 相続人に対する贈与についての第一項の規定の適用については、同項中「一年」とあるのは「十年」と、「価額」とあるのは「価額（婚姻若しくは養子縁組のため又は生計の資本として受けた贈与の価額に限る。）」とする。 art-1044/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-1044/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-1044/par-3 With regard to the application of the provisions of paragraph (1) to gifts to heirs, the term "one year" in that paragraph is deemed to be replaced with "10 years", and the term "value" is deemed to be replaced with "value (limited to the value of gifts received for marriage or adoption or as capital for livelihood)". machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-1044/par-1: 前条 → 民法 第千四十三条 (Article 1043), art-1043 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-1043 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-1043 - art-1044/par-2: 第九百四条 → 民法 第九百四条 (Article 904), art-904 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-904 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-904 - art-1044/par-2: 前項 → 民法 第千四十四条第一項 (Article 1044, paragraph (1)), art-1044/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-1044/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-1044/par-1 - art-1044/par-3: 第一項 → 民法 第千四十四条第一項 (Article 1044, paragraph (1)), art-1044/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-1044/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-1044/par-1 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 第千四十四条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-1044/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-1044/par-2 - 民法 第千四十四条第三項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-1044/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-1044/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 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-20261011T170941-010, translated 2026-10-12 - This site's parser, version 190 — 民法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-11