# 民法 / Civil Code — 第二十五条 (Article 25) - 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: 第二十五条 (Article 25)（不在者の財産の管理） — address `art-25` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-25 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-25 - 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. --- ### 第二十五条（不在者の財産の管理） — (Administration of Absentee Property) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-25 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-25 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-25 **第一項** 従来の住所又は居所を去った者（以下「不在者」という。）がその財産の管理人（以下この節において単に「管理人」という。）を置かなかったときは、家庭裁判所は、利害関係人又は検察官の請求により、その財産の管理について必要な処分を命ずることができる。本人の不在中に管理人の権限が消滅したときも、同様とする。 art-25/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-25/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-25/par-1 If a person who has taken leave of the domicile or residence up until then (referred to as an "absentee" below) has not appointed an administrator for the person's property (in this Section referred to simply as an "administrator" below), the family court, at the request of an interested person or a public prosecutor, may order the necessary dispositions with regard to the administration of that property. The same applies if the administrator's authority is extinguished during the absence of the absentee. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の規定による命令後、本人が管理人を置いたときは、家庭裁判所は、その管理人、利害関係人又は検察官の請求により、その命令を取り消さなければならない。 art-25/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-25/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-25/par-2 If an absentee appoints an administrator after an order under the provisions of the preceding paragraph has been issued, the family court must set aside that order at the request of the person's administrator, an interested person, or a public prosecutor. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-25/par-2: 前項 → 民法 第二十五条第一項 (Article 25, paragraph (1)), art-25/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-25/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-25/par-1 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 第二十五条第二項（不在者の財産の管理） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-25/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-25/par-2 - 民法 第二十七条第一項（管理人の職務） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-27/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-27/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