# 民法 / Civil Code — 第六百九十一条 (Article 691) - 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: 第六百九十一条 (Article 691)（終身定期金契約の解除） — address `art-691` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-691 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-691 - 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. --- ### 第六百九十一条（終身定期金契約の解除） — (Cancellation of Contracts for Periodic Payment for Life) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-691 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-691 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-691 **第一項** 終身定期金債務者が終身定期金の元本を受領した場合において、その終身定期金の給付を怠り、又はその他の義務を履行しないときは、相手方は、元本の返還を請求することができる。この場合において、相手方は、既に受け取った終身定期金の中からその元本の利息を控除した残額を終身定期金債務者に返還しなければならない。 art-691/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-691/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-691/par-1 If the obligor in a periodic payment for life has received the principal for the periodic payment for life but fails to pay the periodic payment for life or fails to perform other obligations, the other party may demand the return of the principal. In these cases, the other party must return to the obligor of the periodic payment for life the amount of the periodic payment for life already received, after deducting the amount of the interest on that principal. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の規定は、損害賠償の請求を妨げない。 art-691/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-691/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-691/par-2 The provisions of the preceding paragraph do not preclude claims for compensation for damage. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-691/par-2: 前項 → 民法 第六百九十一条第一項 (Article 691, paragraph (1)), art-691/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-691/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-691/par-1 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 第六百九十一条第二項（終身定期金契約の解除） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-691/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-691/par-2 - 民法 第六百九十二条第一項（終身定期金契約の解除と同時履行） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-692/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-692/par-1 - 民法 第六百九十三条第二項（終身定期金債権の存続の宣告） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-693/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-693/par-2 --- ## 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