# 民法 / Civil Code — 第六百四十六条 (Article 646) - 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: 第六百四十六条 (Article 646)（受任者による受取物の引渡し等） — address `art-646` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-646 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-646 - 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. --- ### 第六百四十六条（受任者による受取物の引渡し等） — (Delivery of Received Things by Mandatary) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-646 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-646 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-646 **第一項** 受任者は、委任事務を処理するに当たって受け取った金銭その他の物を委任者に引き渡さなければならない。その収取した果実についても、同様とする。 art-646/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-646/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-646/par-1 A mandatary must deliver to the mandator monies and other things received during the course of administering the mandated business. The same applies to fruits the mandatary has reaped. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 受任者は、委任者のために自己の名で取得した権利を委任者に移転しなければならない。 art-646/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-646/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-646/par-2 A mandatary must transfer to the mandator rights that the mandatary has acquired in the mandatary's own name on behalf of the mandator. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 9 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 会社法 第五百九十三条第四項（業務を執行する社員と持分会社との関係） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-593/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-593/par-4 - 会社法 第八百二十五条第七項（会社の財産に関する保全処分） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-825/par-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-825/par-7 - 民法 第六百六十五条第一項（委任の規定の準用） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-665/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-665/par-1 - 民法 第六百七十一条第一項（委任の規定の準用） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-671/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-671/par-1 - 民法 第七百一条第一項（委任の規定の準用） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-701/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-701/par-1 - 民法 第九百二十六条第二項（限定承認者による管理） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-926/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-926/par-2 - 民法 第九百四十条第二項（相続の放棄をした者による管理） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-940/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-940/par-2 - 民法 第九百四十四条第二項（財産分離の請求後の相続人による管理） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-944/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-944/par-2 - 民法 第千十二条第三項（遺言執行者の権利義務） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-1012/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-1012/par-3 --- ## 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