# 民法 / Civil Code — 第百二十三条 (Article 123) - 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: 第百二十三条 (Article 123)（取消し及び追認の方法） — address `art-123` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-123 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-123 - 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. --- ### 第百二十三条（取消し及び追認の方法） — (Method of Revocation and Ratification) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-123 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-123 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-123 **第一項** 取り消すことができる行為の相手方が確定している場合には、その取消し又は追認は、相手方に対する意思表示によってする。 art-123/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-123/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-123/par-1 If the counterparty to an act that may be revoked is identified, the revocation or ratification of that act is made by the manifestation of intention to the counterparty. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 第八百六十五条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-865/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-865/par-2 - 民法 第八百六十六条第二項（被後見人の財産等の譲受けの取消し） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-866/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-866/par-2 - 民法 第八百七十二条第二項（未成年被後見人と未成年後見人等との間の契約等の取消し） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-872/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-872/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 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