# 民法 / Civil Code — 第四百三十五条の二 (Article 435-2) - 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: 第四百三十五条の二 (Article 435-2)（相対的効力の原則） — address `art-435-2` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-435-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-435-2 - 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. --- ### 第四百三十五条の二（相対的効力の原則） — (Principle of Relative Effect) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-435-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-435-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-435-2 **第一項** 第四百三十二条から前条までに規定する場合を除き、連帯債権者の一人の行為又は一人について生じた事由は、他の連帯債権者に対してその効力を生じない。ただし、他の連帯債権者の一人及び債務者が別段の意思を表示したときは、当該他の連帯債権者に対する効力は、その意思に従う。 art-435-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-435-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-435-2/par-1 Except in cases prescribed in Article 432 through the preceding Article, any act of one of the joint and several obligees or any circumstances which have arisen with respect to one of the joint and several obligees do not become effective in relation to other joint and several obligees; provided, however, that if one of the other joint and several obligees and the obligor manifest a particular intention, their intention prevails with respect to the effect in relation to the remaining other joint and several obligees. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-435-2/par-1: 第四百三十二条から前条まで → 民法 第四百三十二条 (Article 432), art-432 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-432 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-432 - art-435-2/par-1: 第四百三十二条から前条まで → 民法 第四百三十三条 (Article 433), art-433 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-433 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-433 - art-435-2/par-1: 第四百三十二条から前条まで → 民法 第四百三十四条 (Article 434), art-434 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-434 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-434 - art-435-2/par-1: 第四百三十二条から前条まで → 民法 第四百三十五条 (Article 435), art-435 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-435 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-435 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 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