# 民法 / Civil Code — 第四百八十九条 (Article 489) - 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: 第四百八十九条 (Article 489)（元本、利息及び費用を支払うべき場合の充当） — address `art-489` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-489 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-489 - 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. --- ### 第四百八十九条（元本、利息及び費用を支払うべき場合の充当） — (Appropriation to Principal, Interest and Expenses Payable) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-489 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-489 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-489 **第一項** 債務者が一個又は数個の債務について元本のほか利息及び費用を支払うべき場合（債務者が数個の債務を負担する場合にあっては、同一の債権者に対して同種の給付を目的とする数個の債務を負担するときに限る。）において、弁済をする者がその債務の全部を消滅させるのに足りない給付をしたときは、これを順次に費用、利息及び元本に充当しなければならない。 art-489/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-489/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-489/par-1 If the obligor is liable to pay interest and expenses in addition to principal with respect to one or more obligations (if the obligor bears two or more obligations, limited to when the obligor bears these obligations requiring the same kind of payment or delivery to the same obligee), and the person that performs the obligations makes payment or delivery which is not sufficient to extinguish the obligation in its entirety must be appropriated first to expenses, and then to interest and principal, in this order. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前条の規定は、前項の場合において、費用、利息又は元本のいずれかの全てを消滅させるのに足りない給付をしたときについて準用する。 art-489/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-489/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-489/par-2 The provisions of the preceding Article apply mutatis mutandis in the case referred to in the preceding paragraph in which the person makes payment or delivery which is not sufficient to extinguish any of expenses, interest or principal in whole. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-489/par-2: 前条 → 民法 第四百八十八条 (Article 488), art-488 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-488 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-488 - art-489/par-2: 前項 → 民法 第四百八十九条第一項 (Article 489, paragraph (1)), art-489/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-489/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-489/par-1 ## Cited by 6 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 第四百八十八条第一項（同種の給付を目的とする数個の債務がある場合の充当） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-488/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-488/par-1 - 民法 第四百八十九条第二項（元本、利息及び費用を支払うべき場合の充当） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-489/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-489/par-2 - 民法 第四百九十条第一項（合意による弁済の充当） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-490/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-490/par-1 - 民法 第四百九十一条第一項（数個の給付をすべき場合の充当） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-491/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-491/par-1 - 民法 第五百十二条第二項第二号（相殺の充当） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-512/par-2/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-512/par-2/item-2 - 民法 附則第二十五条第二項（弁済に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/suppl-4291-44/art-25/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-4291-44/art-25/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