# 民法 / Civil Code — 第五百二十六条 (Article 526) - 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: 第五百二十六条 (Article 526)（申込者の死亡等） — address `art-526` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-526 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-526 - 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. --- ### 第五百二十六条（申込者の死亡等） — (Death of Offeror) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-526 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-526 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-526 **第一項** 申込者が申込みの通知を発した後に死亡し、意思能力を有しない常況にある者となり、又は行為能力の制限を受けた場合において、申込者がその事実が生じたとすればその申込みは効力を有しない旨の意思を表示していたとき、又はその相手方が承諾の通知を発するまでにその事実が生じたことを知ったときは、その申込みは、その効力を有しない。 art-526/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-526/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-526/par-1 If an offeror dies, comes to be in a constant state wherein the offeror lacks mental capacity, or becomes subject to restrictions on legal capacity to act after issuing notice of the offer, and the offeror has manifested the intention not to make the offer effective should any of these facts occur, or the other party comes to know that any of these facts has occurred before issuing a notice of acceptance, that offer is not effective. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 附則第二十九条第二項（契約の成立に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/suppl-4291-44/art-29/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-4291-44/art-29/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