# 民法 / Civil Code — 第六百三十六条 (Article 636) - 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: 第六百三十六条 (Article 636)（請負人の担保責任の制限） — address `art-636` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-636 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-636 - 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. --- ### 第六百三十六条（請負人の担保責任の制限） — (Limitation on Contractor's Warranty) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-636 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-636 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-636 **第一項** 請負人が種類又は品質に関して契約の内容に適合しない仕事の目的物を注文者に引き渡したとき（その引渡しを要しない場合にあっては、仕事が終了した時に仕事の目的物が種類又は品質に関して契約の内容に適合しないとき）は、注文者は、注文者の供した材料の性質又は注文者の与えた指図によって生じた不適合を理由として、履行の追完の請求、報酬の減額の請求、損害賠償の請求及び契約の解除をすることができない。ただし、請負人がその材料又は指図が不適当であることを知りながら告げなかったときは、この限りでない。 art-636/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-636/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-636/par-1 If the contractor delivers to the party ordering work of a content the subject matter of work that does not conform to the contract terms with respect to the kind or quality (in the case of the subject matter of work that is not required to be delivered, if the subject matter of work does not conform to the terms of the contract with respect to the kind or quality when the work is finished), the party ordering work may not demand completion of the non-conformity of performance, demand a reduction of the remuneration, claim damages, or cancel the contract, on the grounds of the non-conformity caused by the nature of the materials that the party ordering work has provided or any instructions that the relevant party has given; provided, however, that this does not apply if the contractor knew that the materials or instructions were inappropriate but did not notify the ordering party of this. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 第六百三十七条第一項（目的物の種類又は品質に関する担保責任の期間の制限） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-637/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-637/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