# 民法 / Civil Code — 第七百十五条 (Article 715) - 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: 第七百十五条 (Article 715)（使用者等の責任） — address `art-715` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-715 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-715 - 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. --- ### 第七百十五条（使用者等の責任） — (Liability of Employers) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-715 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-715 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-715 **第一項** ある事業のために他人を使用する者は、被用者がその事業の執行について第三者に加えた損害を賠償する責任を負う。ただし、使用者が被用者の選任及びその事業の監督について相当の注意をしたとき、又は相当の注意をしても損害が生ずべきであったときは、この限りでない。 art-715/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-715/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-715/par-1 A person that employs another person for a business undertaking is liable to compensate for damage inflicted on a third party by that person's employees with respect to the execution of that business; provided, however, that this does not apply if the employer exercised reasonable care in appointing the employee or in supervising the business, or if the damage could not have been avoided even if the employer had exercised reasonable care. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 使用者に代わって事業を監督する者も、前項の責任を負う。 art-715/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-715/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-715/par-2 A person that supervises a business on behalf of the employer also has the liability referred to in the preceding paragraph. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 前二項の規定は、使用者又は監督者から被用者に対する求償権の行使を妨げない。 art-715/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-715/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-715/par-3 The provisions of the preceding two paragraphs do not preclude the employer or supervisor from exercising their right to reimbursement against the employee. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-715/par-2: 前項 → 民法 第七百十五条第一項 (Article 715, paragraph (1)), art-715/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-715/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-715/par-1 - art-715/par-3: 前二項 → 民法 第七百十五条第一項 (Article 715, paragraph (1)), art-715/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-715/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-715/par-1 - art-715/par-3: 前二項 → 民法 第七百十五条第二項 (Article 715, paragraph (2)), art-715/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-715/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-715/par-2 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 第七百十五条第二項（使用者等の責任） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-715/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-715/par-2 - 民法 第七百十五条第三項（使用者等の責任） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-715/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-715/par-3 --- ## 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