# 民法 / Civil Code — 第七百十四条 (Article 714) - 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: 第七百十四条 (Article 714)（責任無能力者の監督義務者等の責任） — address `art-714` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-714 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-714 - 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. --- ### 第七百十四条（責任無能力者の監督義務者等の責任） — (Liability of Person Obligated to Supervise a Person Without Capacity to Assume Responsibility) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-714 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-714 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-714 **第一項** 前二条の規定により責任無能力者がその責任を負わない場合において、その責任無能力者を監督する法定の義務を負う者は、その責任無能力者が第三者に加えた損害を賠償する責任を負う。ただし、監督義務者がその義務を怠らなかったとき、又はその義務を怠らなくても損害が生ずべきであったときは、この限りでない。 art-714/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-714/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-714/par-1 When a person without capacity to assume responsibility is not liable pursuant to the provisions of the preceding two Articles, the person with the statutory obligation to supervise the person without capacity to assume responsibility is liable to damages that the person without capacity to assume responsibility has inflicted on a third party; provided, however, that this does not apply if the person who has the obligation to supervise has not failed to perform that person's obligation or if the damage could not have been avoided even if that person had not failed to perform that person's obligation. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 監督義務者に代わって責任無能力者を監督する者も、前項の責任を負う。 art-714/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-714/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-714/par-2 A person who supervises a person without capacity assumes responsibility on behalf of the person who has the obligation to supervise also has the liability referred to in the preceding paragraph. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-714/par-1: 前二条 → 民法 第七百十二条 (Article 712), art-712 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-712 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-712 - art-714/par-1: 前二条 → 民法 第七百十三条 (Article 713), art-713 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-713 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-713 - art-714/par-2: 前項 → 民法 第七百十四条第一項 (Article 714, paragraph (1)), art-714/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-714/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-714/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 第七百十四条第二項（責任無能力者の監督義務者等の責任） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-714/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-714/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