# 民法 / Civil Code — 第四百四十二条 (Article 442) - 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: 第四百四十二条 (Article 442)（連帯債務者間の求償権） — address `art-442` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-442 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-442 - 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. --- ### 第四百四十二条（連帯債務者間の求償権） — (Right to Reimbursement Among Joint and Several Obligors) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-442 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-442 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-442 **第一項** 連帯債務者の一人が弁済をし、その他自己の財産をもって共同の免責を得たときは、その連帯債務者は、その免責を得た額が自己の負担部分を超えるかどうかにかかわらず、他の連帯債務者に対し、その免責を得るために支出した財産の額（その財産の額が共同の免責を得た額を超える場合にあっては、その免責を得た額）のうち各自の負担部分に応じた額の求償権を有する。 art-442/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-442/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-442/par-1 If one of the joint and several obligors performs the obligation or otherwise obtain a common discharge in exchange for that obligor's own property, the joint and several obligor has the right to reimbursement from other joint and several obligors for the amounts in proportion to their respective shares of the obligation of the amount of the property expended by the joint and several obligor in order to obtain the discharge (if the amount of property exceeds the amount after the common discharge, the amount thus discharged), regardless of whether the amount discharged exceeds the amount of the joint and several obligor's own share. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の規定による求償は、弁済その他免責があった日以後の法定利息及び避けることができなかった費用その他の損害の賠償を包含する。 art-442/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-442/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-442/par-2 The reimbursement under the provisions of the preceding paragraph includes the compensation of the statutory interest which accrues on or after the day of the performance of the obligation or other discharge, and the compensation for unavoidable expenses and other loss or damage. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-442/par-2: 前項 → 民法 第四百四十二条第一項 (Article 442, paragraph (1)), art-442/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-442/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-442/par-1 ## Cited by 5 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 国税通則法 第八条第一項（国税の連帯納付義務についての民法の準用） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-tax-general-rules-act/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/337AC0000000066/art-8/par-1 - 民法 第四百四十二条第二項（連帯債務者間の求償権） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-442/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-442/par-2 - 民法 第四百四十五条第一項（連帯債務者の一人との間の免除等と求償権） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-445/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-445/par-1 - 民法 第四百五十九条第二項（委託を受けた保証人の求償権） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-459/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-459/par-2 - 民法 第四百六十五条第一項（共同保証人間の求償権） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-465/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-465/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