# 民法 / Civil Code — 第四百四十四条 (Article 444) - 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: 第四百四十四条 (Article 444)（償還をする資力のない者の負担部分の分担） — address `art-444` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-444 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-444 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第四百四十四条（償還をする資力のない者の負担部分の分担） — (Allocation of Share of Person Who Does Not Have Sufficient Financial Resources for Reimbursement) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-444 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-444 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-444 **第一項** 連帯債務者の中に償還をする資力のない者があるときは、その償還をすることができない部分は、求償者及び他の資力のある者の間で、各自の負担部分に応じて分割して負担する。 art-444/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-444/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-444/par-1 If one of the joint and several obligors does not have the sufficient financial resources to make the reimbursement, the portion that is unable to be reimbursed is borne by the joint and several obligor that demands the reimbursement and the other joint and several obligors that have the financial resources, in proportion to their respective shares of the obligation. 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、求償者及び他の資力のある者がいずれも負担部分を有しない者であるときは、その償還をすることができない部分は、求償者及び他の資力のある者の間で、等しい割合で分割して負担する。 art-444/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-444/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-444/par-2 In the case prescribed in the preceding paragraph, if neither the joint and several obligor that demands the reimbursement nor the other obligors that have the financial resources have shares of the obligation, the portion that is unable to be reimbursed is borne equally among the joint and several obligor that demands the reimbursement and the other obligors that have the financial resources. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 前二項の規定にかかわらず、償還を受けることができないことについて求償者に過失があるときは、他の連帯債務者に対して分担を請求することができない。 art-444/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-444/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-444/par-3 Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding two paragraphs, if the joint and several obligor that demands the reimbursement is unable to receive the reimbursement due to negligence, that joint and several obligor may not request other joint and several obligors to bear their respective shares of the obligation. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-444/par-2: 前項 → 民法 第四百四十四条第一項 (Article 444, paragraph (1)), art-444/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-444/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-444/par-1 - art-444/par-3: 前二項 → 民法 第四百四十四条第一項 (Article 444, paragraph (1)), art-444/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-444/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-444/par-1 - art-444/par-3: 前二項 → 民法 第四百四十四条第二項 (Article 444, paragraph (2)), art-444/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-444/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-444/par-2 ## Cited by 4 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 第四百四十四条第二項（償還をする資力のない者の負担部分の分担） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-444/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-444/par-2 - 民法 第四百四十四条第三項（償還をする資力のない者の負担部分の分担） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-444/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-444/par-3 - 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