# 民法 / Civil Code — 第四百三十三条 (Article 433) - 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: 第四百三十三条 (Article 433)（連帯債権者の一人との間の更改又は免除） — address `art-433` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-433 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-433 - 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. --- ### 第四百三十三条（連帯債権者の一人との間の更改又は免除） — (Novation or Release between Obligor and One of Joint and Several Obligees) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-433 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-433 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-433 **第一項** 連帯債権者の一人と債務者との間に更改又は免除があったときは、その連帯債権者がその権利を失わなければ分与されるべき利益に係る部分については、他の連帯債権者は、履行を請求することができない。 art-433/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-433/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-433/par-1 If there is a novation or release between one of the joint and several obligees and the obligor, the other obligees may not request performance of the part concerning the benefit which should have been allocated to that one obligee if the obligee did not lose the relevant right. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 第四百二十八条第一項（不可分債権） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-428/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-428/par-1 - 民法 第四百三十五条の二第一項（相対的効力の原則） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-435-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-435-2/par-1 - 民法 附則第二十条第三項（不可分債権、不可分債務、連帯債権及び連帯債務に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/suppl-4291-44/art-20/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-4291-44/art-20/par-3 --- ## 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