# 民法 / Civil Code — 第四百九条 (Article 409) - 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: 第四百九条 (Article 409)（第三者の選択権） — address `art-409` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-409 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-409 - 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. --- ### 第四百九条（第三者の選択権） — (Right to Choose of Third Party) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-409 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-409 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-409 **第一項** 第三者が選択をすべき場合には、その選択は、債権者又は債務者に対する意思表示によってする。 art-409/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-409/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-409/par-1 If a third party makes the choice, that choice is made by manifesting intention to either the obligee or the obligor. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項に規定する場合において、第三者が選択をすることができず、又は選択をする意思を有しないときは、選択権は、債務者に移転する。 art-409/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-409/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-409/par-2 In the case prescribed in the preceding paragraph, if the third party is unable to make the choice or has no intention to make the choice, the right to choose is transferred to the obligor. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-409/par-2: 前項 → 民法 第四百九条第一項 (Article 409, paragraph (1)), art-409/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-409/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-409/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 第四百九条第二項（第三者の選択権） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-409/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-409/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