# 民法 / Civil Code — 第七百七条 (Article 707) - 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: 第七百七条 (Article 707)（他人の債務の弁済） — address `art-707` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-707 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-707 - 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. --- ### 第七百七条（他人の債務の弁済） — (Performance of Obligations of Others) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-707 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-707 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-707 **第一項** 債務者でない者が錯誤によって債務の弁済をした場合において、債権者が善意で証書を滅失させ若しくは損傷し、担保を放棄し、又は時効によってその債権を失ったときは、その弁済をした者は、返還の請求をすることができない。 art-707/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-707/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-707/par-1 If a person that is not an obligor has performed an obligation by mistake and the obligee, acting in good faith, has allowed the instrument to be lost, has damaged the instrument, has waived the security, or has lost the claim by prescription, the person performing the obligation may not demand the return of subject of the performance. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の規定は、弁済をした者から債務者に対する求償権の行使を妨げない。 art-707/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-707/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-707/par-2 The provisions of the preceding paragraph do not preclude the person performing an obligation from exercising the right to reimbursement against the obligor. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-707/par-2: 前項 → 民法 第七百七条第一項 (Article 707, paragraph (1)), art-707/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-707/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-707/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 第七百七条第二項（他人の債務の弁済） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-707/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-707/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