# 民法 / Civil Code — 第四百六十五条の二 (Article 465-2) - 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: 第四百六十五条の二 (Article 465-2)（個人根保証契約の保証人の責任等） — address `art-465-2` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-465-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-465-2 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第四百六十五条の二（個人根保証契約の保証人の責任等） — (Liability of Guarantor of Contract for Revolving Guarantee by Individual) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-465-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-465-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-465-2 **第一項** 一定の範囲に属する不特定の債務を主たる債務とする保証契約（以下「根保証契約」という。）であって保証人が法人でないもの（以下「個人根保証契約」という。）の保証人は、主たる債務の元本、主たる債務に関する利息、違約金、損害賠償その他その債務に従たる全てのもの及びその保証債務について約定された違約金又は損害賠償の額について、その全部に係る極度額を限度として、その履行をする責任を負う。 art-465-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-465-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-465-2/par-1 A guarantor to a guarantee contract under which the principal obligation is one or more unidentified obligations within a certain specified scope (referred to as a "contract for revolving guarantee" below) and the guarantor is not a corporation (referred to as a "contract for revolving guarantee by an individual" below) is liable to perform the obligation in terms of the amounts of the principal of the principal obligation, any interest, penalty and damages in connection with the principal obligation, and all the other charges secondary to the obligation, as well as the amount of any penalty or damages which is agreed-upon on with regard to the guarantee obligation, up to a certain maximum amount which pertains to all of these amounts. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 個人根保証契約は、前項に規定する極度額を定めなければ、その効力を生じない。 art-465-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-465-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-465-2/par-2 A contract for revolving guarantee by an individual does not become effective unless it provides for the maximum amount prescribed in the preceding paragraph. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 第四百四十六条第二項及び第三項の規定は、個人根保証契約における第一項に規定する極度額の定めについて準用する。 art-465-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-465-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-465-2/par-3 The provisions of Article 446, paragraphs (2) and (3) apply mutatis mutandis to the provisions concerning a maximum amount prescribed in paragraph (1) in a contract for revolving guarantee by an individual. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-465-2/par-2: 前項 → 民法 第四百六十五条の二第一項 (Article 465-2, paragraph (1)), art-465-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-465-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-465-2/par-1 - art-465-2/par-3: 第四百四十六条第二項 → 民法 第四百四十六条第二項 (Article 446, paragraph (2)), art-446/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-446/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-446/par-2 - art-465-2/par-3: 第三項 → 民法 第四百四十六条第三項 (Article 446, paragraph (3)), art-446/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-446/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-446/par-3 - art-465-2/par-3: 第一項 → 民法 第四百六十五条の二第一項 (Article 465-2, paragraph (1)), art-465-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-465-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-465-2/par-1 ## Cited by 5 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 第四百六十五条の二第二項（個人根保証契約の保証人の責任等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-465-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-465-2/par-2 - 民法 第四百六十五条の二第三項（個人根保証契約の保証人の責任等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-465-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-465-2/par-3 - 民法 第四百六十五条の五第一項（保証人が法人である根保証契約の求償権） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-465-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-465-5/par-1 - 民法 附則第四条第一項（貸金等根保証契約に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/suppl-4161-147/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-4161-147/art-4/par-1 - 民法 附則第四条第二項第一号（貸金等根保証契約に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/suppl-4161-147/art-4/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-4161-147/art-4/par-2/item-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