# 民法 / Civil Code — 第百二十六条 (Article 126) - 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: 第百二十六条 (Article 126)（取消権の期間の制限） — address `art-126` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-126 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-126 - 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. --- ### 第百二十六条（取消権の期間の制限） — (Limitation on Period of Right to Revoke) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-126 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-126 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-126 **第一項** 取消権は、追認をすることができる時から五年間行使しないときは、時効によって消滅する。行為の時から二十年を経過したときも、同様とする。 art-126/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-126/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-126/par-1 The right to revoke an act is extinguished by the operation of the prescription if it is not exercised within five years from the time when it becomes possible to ratify the act. The same applies if 20 years have passed from the time of the act. 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