# 民法 / Civil Code — 第百五十二条 (Article 152) - 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: 第百五十二条 (Article 152)（承認による時効の更新） — address `art-152` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-152 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-152 - 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. --- ### 第百五十二条（承認による時効の更新） — (Renewal of Period of Prescription on the Ground of Acknowledgment) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-152 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-152 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-152 **第一項** 時効は、権利の承認があったときは、その時から新たにその進行を始める。 art-152/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-152/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-152/par-1 If a right is acknowledged, a new period of prescription commences to run at the time of the acknowledgment. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の承認をするには、相手方の権利についての処分につき行為能力の制限を受けていないこと又は権限があることを要しない。 art-152/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-152/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-152/par-2 With respect to the disposition of the right of the other party, an acknowledgment referred to in the preceding paragraph does not require unlimited capacity to act or authority. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-152/par-2: 前項 → 民法 第百五十二条第一項 (Article 152, paragraph (1)), art-152/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-152/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-152/par-1 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 第百五十二条第二項（承認による時効の更新） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-152/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-152/par-2 - 民法 第百五十三条第三項（時効の完成猶予又は更新の効力が及ぶ者の範囲） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-153/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-153/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 - This site's parser, version 190 — 民法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-11