# 民法 / Civil Code — 第四百七十二条の二 (Article 472-2) - 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: 第四百七十二条の二 (Article 472-2)（免責的債務引受における引受人の抗弁等） — address `art-472-2` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-472-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-472-2 - 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. 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. --- ### 第四百七十二条の二（免責的債務引受における引受人の抗弁等） — (Defense by New Obligor in Discharging Assumption of an Obligation) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-472-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-472-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-472-2 **第一項** 引受人は、免責的債務引受により負担した自己の債務について、その効力が生じた時に債務者が主張することができた抗弁をもって債権者に対抗することができる。 art-472-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-472-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-472-2/par-1 A new obligor may duly assert against the obligee any defense that could have been asserted by the initial obligor at the time when the discharging assumption of an obligation became effective, with regard to the obligation that the replacing obligor has assumed through the assumption of obligation releasing the obligor. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 債務者が債権者に対して取消権又は解除権を有するときは、引受人は、免責的債務引受がなければこれらの権利の行使によって債務者がその債務を免れることができた限度において、債権者に対して債務の履行を拒むことができる。 art-472-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-472-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-472-2/par-2 If the old obligor has a right to revoke or right to cancel against the obligee, the new obligor may refuse to perform the obligation to the obligee to the extent that the initial obligor could have been released from the obligation by exercising either of these rights should the assumption of obligation releasing the obligor not be effected. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 附則第二十三条第一項（債務の引受けに関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/suppl-4291-44/art-23/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-4291-44/art-23/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