# 民法 / Civil Code — 第四百九十一条 (Article 491) - 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: 第四百九十一条 (Article 491)（数個の給付をすべき場合の充当） — address `art-491` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-491 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-491 - 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. --- ### 第四百九十一条（数個の給付をすべき場合の充当） — (Appropriation in Cases More Than One Performance Should Be Tendered) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-491 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-491 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-491 **第一項** 一個の債務の弁済として数個の給付をすべき場合において、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、前三条の規定を準用する。 art-491/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-491/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-491/par-1 If more than one performance should be tendered to discharge a single obligation, if the person that must perform tenders any performance which is not sufficient to extinguish the obligation in its entirety, the provisions of the preceding three Articles apply mutatis mutandis. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-491/par-1: 前三条 → 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-491/par-1: 前三条 → 民法 第四百八十九条 (Article 489), art-489 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-489 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-489 - art-491/par-1: 前三条 → 民法 第四百九十条 (Article 490), art-490 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-490 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-490 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 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