# 民法 / Civil Code — 第四百六十一条 (Article 461) - 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: 第四百六十一条 (Article 461)（主たる債務者が保証人に対して償還をする場合） — address `art-461` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-461 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-461 - 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. --- ### 第四百六十一条（主たる債務者が保証人に対して償還をする場合） — (Cases in Which a Principal Obligor Reimburses a Guarantor) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-461 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-461 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-461 **第一項** 前条の規定により主たる債務者が保証人に対して償還をする場合において、債権者が全部の弁済を受けない間は、主たる債務者は、保証人に担保を供させ、又は保証人に対して自己に免責を得させることを請求することができる。 art-461/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-461/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-461/par-1 If a principal obligor reimburses a guarantor pursuant to the provisions of the preceding Article, the principal obligor may demand the guarantor to provide security or to obtain an exemption for the principal obligor until the obligee receives the full satisfaction of the entire 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、主たる債務者は、供託をし、担保を供し、又は保証人に免責を得させて、その償還の義務を免れることができる。 art-461/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-461/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-461/par-2 In the case prescribed in the preceding paragraph, the principal obligor may be released from the obligation for reimbursement by making a deposit with an official depository, by providing security, or by procuring the discharge of the liabilities of the guarantor. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-461/par-1: 前条 → 民法 第四百六十条 (Article 460), art-460 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-460 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-460 - art-461/par-2: 前項 → 民法 第四百六十一条第一項 (Article 461, paragraph (1)), art-461/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-461/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-461/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 第四百六十一条第二項（主たる債務者が保証人に対して償還をする場合） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-461/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-461/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