# 民法 / Civil Code — 第四百六十五条の八 (Article 465-8) - 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: 第四百六十五条の八 (Article 465-8)（公正証書の作成と求償権についての保証の効力） — address `art-465-8` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-465-8 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-465-8 - 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. --- ### 第四百六十五条の八（公正証書の作成と求償権についての保証の効力） — (Preparation of Notarial Instrument and Effect of Guarantee for Right to Reimbursement) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-465-8 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-465-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-465-8 **第一項** 第四百六十五条の六第一項及び第二項並びに前条の規定は、事業のために負担した貸金等債務を主たる債務とする保証契約又は主たる債務の範囲に事業のために負担する貸金等債務が含まれる根保証契約の保証人の主たる債務者に対する求償権に係る債務を主たる債務とする保証契約について準用する。主たる債務の範囲にその求償権に係る債務が含まれる根保証契約も、同様とする。 art-465-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-465-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-465-8/par-1 The provisions of Article 465-6, paragraphs (1) and (2) and the preceding Article apply mutatis mutandis to a guarantee contract under which the principal obligation is a loan obligation assumed for business or a guarantee contract under which the principal obligation is an obligation relating to the right to reimbursement held by a guarantor against the principal obligor under a revolving guarantee contract under which the scope of the principal obligation includes a loan obligation assumed for business. The same applies to a contract for revolving guarantee under which the scope of the principal obligation includes an obligation relating to that right to reimbursement. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の規定は、保証人になろうとする者が法人である場合には、適用しない。 art-465-8/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-465-8/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-465-8/par-2 The provisions of the preceding paragraph do not apply if the person intending to become a guarantor is a corporation. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-465-8/par-1: 第四百六十五条の六第一項 → 民法 第四百六十五条の六第一項 (Article 465-6, paragraph (1)), art-465-6/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-465-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-465-6/par-1 - art-465-8/par-1: 第二項 → 民法 第四百六十五条の六第二項 (Article 465-6, paragraph (2)), art-465-6/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-465-6/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-465-6/par-2 - art-465-8/par-1: 前条 → 民法 第四百六十五条の七 (Article 465-7), art-465-7 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-465-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-465-7 - art-465-8/par-2: 前項 → 民法 第四百六十五条の八第一項 (Article 465-8, paragraph (1)), art-465-8/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-465-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-465-8/par-1 ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 第四百六十五条の八第二項（公正証書の作成と求償権についての保証の効力） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-465-8/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-465-8/par-2 - 民法 第四百六十五条の九第一項（公正証書の作成と保証の効力に関する規定の適用除外） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-465-9/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-465-9/par-1 - 民法 附則第二十一条第二項（保証債務に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/suppl-4291-44/art-21/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-4291-44/art-21/par-2 - 民法 附則第二十一条第三項（保証債務に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/suppl-4291-44/art-21/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-4291-44/art-21/par-3 --- ## 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