# 民法 / Civil Code — 第百九条 (Article 109) - 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: 第百九条 (Article 109)（代理権授与の表示による表見代理等） — address `art-109` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-109 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-109 - 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. --- ### 第百九条（代理権授与の表示による表見代理等） — (Apparent Authority Due to Indication of Grant of Authority to Represent) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-109 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-109 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-109 **第一項** 第三者に対して他人に代理権を与えた旨を表示した者は、その代理権の範囲内においてその他人が第三者との間でした行為について、その責任を負う。ただし、第三者が、その他人が代理権を与えられていないことを知り、又は過失によって知らなかったときは、この限りでない。 art-109/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-109/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-109/par-1 A person who indicates to a third party that the person granted certain authority to represent to another person is liable for an act performed between that other person and that third party within the scope of the authority to represent; provided, however, that this does not apply if the third party knew or did not know due to negligence that the other person has not been granted the authority to represent. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 第三者に対して他人に代理権を与えた旨を表示した者は、その代理権の範囲内においてその他人が第三者との間で行為をしたとすれば前項の規定によりその責任を負うべき場合において、その他人が第三者との間でその代理権の範囲外の行為をしたときは、第三者がその行為についてその他人の代理権があると信ずべき正当な理由があるときに限り、その行為についての責任を負う。 art-109/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-109/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-109/par-2 If a person who indicates to a third party that the person granted authority to represent to another person is, pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, liable for acts performed by that other person in relation to the third party within the scope of the authority to represent, and the other person performs in relation to the third party an act beyond the scope of the authority to represent, the person who makes the indication is liable for that act only if the third party has reasonable grounds for believing that the other person has authority to represent in that act. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-109/par-2: 前項 → 民法 第百九条第一項 (Article 109, paragraph (1)), art-109/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-109/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-109/par-1 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 第百九条第二項（代理権授与の表示による表見代理等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-109/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-109/par-2 - 民法 第百十条第一項（権限外の行為の表見代理） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-110/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-110/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 1 of 2) (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4848/tb), retrieved 2026-10-11 - This site's parser, version 190 — 民法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-11