# 民法 / Civil Code — 第六百六十六条 (Article 666) - 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: 第六百六十六条 (Article 666)（消費寄託） — address `art-666` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-666 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-666 - 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. --- ### 第六百六十六条（消費寄託） — (Deposit of Fungibles) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-666 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-666 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-666 **第一項** 受寄者が契約により寄託物を消費することができる場合には、受寄者は、寄託された物と種類、品質及び数量の同じ物をもって返還しなければならない。 art-666/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-666/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-666/par-1 If a bailee may consume the bailed thing by contract, the bailee must return the thing that is the same kind, quality and quantity as the bailed thing. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 第五百九十条及び第五百九十二条の規定は、前項に規定する場合について準用する。 art-666/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-666/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-666/par-2 The provisions of Articles 590 and 592 apply mutatis mutandis to the case prescribed in the preceding paragraph. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "The provisions of Articles 591 and 592 apply mutatis mutandis to the case prescribed in the preceding paragraph." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4848/tb **第三項** 第五百九十一条第二項及び第三項の規定は、預金又は貯金に係る契約により金銭を寄託した場合について準用する。 art-666/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-666/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-666/par-3 The provisions of Article 591, paragraphs (2) and (3) apply mutatis mutandis to the case of a bailment of money by a contract concerning deposits savings. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-666/par-2: 第五百九十条 → 民法 第五百九十条 (Article 590), art-590 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-590 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-590 - art-666/par-2: 第五百九十二条 → 民法 第五百九十二条 (Article 592), art-592 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-592 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-592 - art-666/par-2: 前項 → 民法 第六百六十六条第一項 (Article 666, paragraph (1)), art-666/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-666/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-666/par-1 - art-666/par-3: 第五百九十一条第二項 → 民法 第五百九十一条第二項 (Article 591, paragraph (2)), art-591/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-591/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-591/par-2 - art-666/par-3: 第三項 → 民法 第五百九十一条第三項 (Article 591, paragraph (3)), art-591/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-591/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-591/par-3 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 第六百六十六条第二項（消費寄託） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-666/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-666/par-2 --- ## Sources - claude-opus-5-5 — Corrections to the Ministry of Justice's English of paragraphs, written 2026-10-12 - 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 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Civil Code (民法), Article 666, paragraph (2) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (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