# 民法 / Civil Code — 第五百七十九条 (Article 579) - 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: 第五百七十九条 (Article 579)（買戻しの特約） — address `art-579` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-579 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-579 - 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. --- ### 第五百七十九条（買戻しの特約） — (Special Agreement on Redemption) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-579 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-579 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-579 **第一項** 不動産の売主は、売買契約と同時にした買戻しの特約により、買主が支払った代金（別段の合意をした場合にあっては、その合意により定めた金額。第五百八十三条第一項において同じ。）及び契約の費用を返還して、売買の解除をすることができる。この場合において、当事者が別段の意思を表示しなかったときは、不動産の果実と代金の利息とは相殺したものとみなす。 art-579/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-579/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-579/par-1 The buyer of immovables may cancel the sale by refunding the price (or any amount specified by agreement if otherwise agreed upon; the same applies in Article 583, paragraph (1)) and costs of the contract paid by the buyer in accordance with a special agreement on redemption executed simultaneously with the contract for sale. In such a case, unless a particular intention is manifested by the parties, it is deemed that the fruit of the immovables and the interest on the price have been set off against each other. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-579/par-1: 第五百八十三条第一項 → 民法 第五百八十三条第一項 (Article 583, paragraph (1)), art-583/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-583/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-583/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 不動産登記法 第九十六条第一項（買戻しの特約の登記の登記事項） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/real-property-registration-act/art-96/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000123/art-96/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