# 民法 / Civil Code — 第六百九十三条 (Article 693) - 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: 第六百九十三条 (Article 693)（終身定期金債権の存続の宣告） — address `art-693` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-693 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-693 - 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. --- ### 第六百九十三条（終身定期金債権の存続の宣告） — (Declaration of Continuation of Claim for Periodic Payment for Life) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-693 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-693 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-693 **第一項** 終身定期金債務者の責めに帰すべき事由によって第六百八十九条に規定する死亡が生じたときは、裁判所は、終身定期金債権者又はその相続人の請求により、終身定期金債権が相当の期間存続することを宣告することができる。 art-693/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-693/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-693/par-1 If a death provided for in Article 689 occurs due to grounds attributable to the obligor in a periodic payment for life, the court may, at the request of the obligee in the periodic payment for life or the obligee's heirs, pronounce that the periodic payment for life claim continues for a reasonable period of time. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の規定は、第六百九十一条の権利の行使を妨げない。 art-693/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-693/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-693/par-2 The provisions of the preceding paragraph do not preclude the exercise of the rights provided in Article 691. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-693/par-1: 第六百八十九条 → 民法 第六百八十九条 (Article 689), art-689 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-689 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-689 - art-693/par-2: 前項 → 民法 第六百九十三条第一項 (Article 693, paragraph (1)), art-693/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-693/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-693/par-1 - art-693/par-2: 第六百九十一条 → 民法 第六百九十一条 (Article 691), art-691 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-691 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-691 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 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