# 民法 / Civil Code — 第四百五十九条 (Article 459) - 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: 第四百五十九条 (Article 459)（委託を受けた保証人の求償権） — address `art-459` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-459 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-459 - 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. --- ### 第四百五十九条（委託を受けた保証人の求償権） — (Right to Reimbursement of Guarantor Guaranteeing by Request) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-459 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-459 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-459 **第一項** 保証人が主たる債務者の委託を受けて保証をした場合において、主たる債務者に代わって弁済その他自己の財産をもって債務を消滅させる行為（以下「債務の消滅行為」という。）をしたときは、その保証人は、主たる債務者に対し、そのために支出した財産の額（その財産の額がその債務の消滅行為によって消滅した主たる債務の額を超える場合にあっては、その消滅した額）の求償権を有する。 art-459/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-459/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-459/par-1 If a guarantor gives guarantee as requested by the principal obligor, and performs the obligation on behalf of the principal obligor or performs any other act that causes the obligation to be extinguished in exchange for the guarantor's own property (referred to as an "act for extinguishment of obligation" below), the guarantor has a right to reimbursement from the principal obligor for the amount of property expended for that act (if the amount of property exceeds the amount of the principal obligation extinguished by the act for extinguishment of obligation, the amount thus extinguished). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 第四百四十二条第二項の規定は、前項の場合について準用する。 art-459/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-459/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-459/par-2 The provisions of Article 442, paragraph (2) apply mutatis mutandis to the cases stated in the preceding paragraph. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-459/par-2: 第四百四十二条第二項 → 民法 第四百四十二条第二項 (Article 442, paragraph (2)), art-442/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-442/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-442/par-2 - art-459/par-2: 前項 → 民法 第四百五十九条第一項 (Article 459, paragraph (1)), art-459/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-459/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-459/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 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 --- ## 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