# 民法 / Civil Code — 第百五十三条 (Article 153) - 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: 第百五十三条 (Article 153)（時効の完成猶予又は更新の効力が及ぶ者の範囲） — address `art-153` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-153 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-153 - 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. --- ### 第百五十三条（時効の完成猶予又は更新の効力が及ぶ者の範囲） — (Scope of Persons Affected by Postponement of Expiration of Prescription Period or Renewal of Prescription Period) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-153 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-153 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-153 **第一項** 第百四十七条又は第百四十八条の規定による時効の完成猶予又は更新は、完成猶予又は更新の事由が生じた当事者及びその承継人の間においてのみ、その効力を有する。 art-153/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-153/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-153/par-1 The postponement of the expiry of prescription period or the renewal of prescription period under the provisions of Article 147 or Article 148 is effective only between the parties with respect to whom grounds to postpone the expiry of prescription period or to renew prescription period have arisen and their successors. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 第百四十九条から第百五十一条までの規定による時効の完成猶予は、完成猶予の事由が生じた当事者及びその承継人の間においてのみ、その効力を有する。 art-153/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-153/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-153/par-2 The postponement of expiration of prescription period under the provisions of Articles 149 through 151 is effective only between the parties with respect to whom grounds to postpone the expiry of prescription period have arisen and their successors. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 前条の規定による時効の更新は、更新の事由が生じた当事者及びその承継人の間においてのみ、その効力を有する。 art-153/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-153/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-153/par-3 The renewal of period of prescription under the provisions of the preceding Article is effective only between the parties with respect to whom grounds to renew prescription period have arisen and their successors. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-153/par-1: 第百四十七条 → 民法 第百四十七条 (Article 147), art-147 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-147 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-147 - art-153/par-1: 第百四十八条 → 民法 第百四十八条 (Article 148), art-148 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-148 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-148 - art-153/par-2: 第百四十九条から第百五十一条まで → 民法 第百四十九条 (Article 149), art-149 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-149 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-149 - art-153/par-2: 第百四十九条から第百五十一条まで → 民法 第百五十条 (Article 150), art-150 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-150 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-150 - art-153/par-2: 第百四十九条から第百五十一条まで → 民法 第百五十一条 (Article 151), art-151 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-151 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-151 - art-153/par-3: 前条 → 民法 第百五十二条 (Article 152), art-152 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-152 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-152 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 厚生年金保険法 附則第五条第二項（存続厚生年金基金に係る改正前厚生年金保険法等の効力等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4251-63/art-5/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4251-63/art-5/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