# 民法 / Civil Code — 第三百九条 (Article 309) - 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: 第三百九条 (Article 309)（葬式費用の先取特権） — address `art-309` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-309 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-309 - 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. --- ### 第三百九条（葬式費用の先取特権） — (Statutory Liens for Funeral Expenses) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-309 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-309 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-309 **第一項** 葬式の費用の先取特権は、債務者のためにされた葬式の費用のうち相当な額について存在する。 art-309/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-309/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-309/par-1 Statutory liens for funeral expenses exist with respect to the reasonable expenses of a funeral held for the obligor. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の先取特権は、債務者がその扶養すべき親族のためにした葬式の費用のうち相当な額についても存在する。 art-309/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-309/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-309/par-2 The statutory lien referred to in the preceding paragraph also exists with respect to the reasonable expenses of a funeral held by the obligor for a relative whom the obligor is bound to support. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-309/par-2: 前項 → 民法 第三百九条第一項 (Article 309, paragraph (1)), art-309/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-309/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-309/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 第三百九条第二項（葬式費用の先取特権） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-309/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-309/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