# 民法 / Civil Code — 第四百十三条の二 (Article 413-2) - 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: 第四百十三条の二 (Article 413-2)（履行遅滞中又は受領遅滞中の履行不能と帰責事由） — address `art-413-2` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-413-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-413-2 - 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. --- ### 第四百十三条の二（履行遅滞中又は受領遅滞中の履行不能と帰責事由） — (Impossibility of Performance during Obligor's Delay in Performance or Obligee's Delay in Acceptance, and Grounds Attributable) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-413-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-413-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-413-2 **第一項** 債務者がその債務について遅滞の責任を負っている間に当事者双方の責めに帰することができない事由によってその債務の履行が不能となったときは、その履行の不能は、債務者の責めに帰すべき事由によるものとみなす。 art-413-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-413-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-413-2/par-1 If the performance of an obligation becomes impossible due to grounds not attributable to either party during a period in which the obligor is liable for delay in performance of the obligation, the impossibility of performance is deemed to be due to grounds attributable to the obligor. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 債権者が債務の履行を受けることを拒み、又は受けることができない場合において、履行の提供があった時以後に当事者双方の責めに帰することができない事由によってその債務の履行が不能となったときは、その履行の不能は、債権者の責めに帰すべき事由によるものとみなす。 art-413-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-413-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-413-2/par-2 If the obligee refuses or is unable to accept the performance of an obligation, and the performance of the obligation becomes impossible due to grounds not attributable to either party after the obligor's tender of the performance, the impossibility of performance is deemed to be due to grounds attributable to the obligee. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 附則第十七条第一項（債務不履行の責任等に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/suppl-4291-44/art-17/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-4291-44/art-17/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