# 民法 / Civil Code — 第六百十三条 (Article 613) - 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: 第六百十三条 (Article 613)（転貸の効果） — address `art-613` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-613 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-613 - 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. --- ### 第六百十三条（転貸の効果） — (Effect of Subleases) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-613 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-613 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-613 **第一項** 賃借人が適法に賃借物を転貸したときは、転借人は、賃貸人と賃借人との間の賃貸借に基づく賃借人の債務の範囲を限度として、賃貸人に対して転貸借に基づく債務を直接履行する義務を負う。この場合においては、賃料の前払をもって賃貸人に対抗することができない。 art-613/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-613/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-613/par-1 If a lessee lawfully subleases a leased thing, the sublessee is liable to perform an obligation based on the sublease directly to the lessor, to the extent of the scope of the lessee's obligation based on the lease between the lessor and the lessee. In such a case, advance payment of rent may not be duly asserted against the lessor. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の規定は、賃貸人が賃借人に対してその権利を行使することを妨げない。 art-613/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-613/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-613/par-2 The provisions of the preceding paragraph do not preclude the lessor from exercising rights against the lessee. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 賃借人が適法に賃借物を転貸した場合には、賃貸人は、賃借人との間の賃貸借を合意により解除したことをもって転借人に対抗することができない。ただし、その解除の当時、賃貸人が賃借人の債務不履行による解除権を有していたときは、この限りでない。 art-613/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-613/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-613/par-3 If the lessee lawfully subleases a leased thing, the lessor may not duly assert against the sublessee the cancellation by agreement of the lease with the lessee; provided, however, that this does not apply if, at the time of the cancellation, the lessor has a right to cancel due to non-performance on the part of the lessee. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-613/par-2: 前項 → 民法 第六百十三条第一項 (Article 613, paragraph (1)), art-613/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-613/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-613/par-1 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 第六百十三条第二項（転貸の効果） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-613/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-613/par-2 - 民法 第千三十六条第一項（使用貸借及び賃貸借の規定の準用） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-1036/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-1036/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