# 民法 / Civil Code — 第七百五十一条 (Article 751) - 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: 第七百五十一条 (Article 751)（生存配偶者の復氏等） — address `art-751` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-751 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-751 - 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. --- ### 第七百五十一条（生存配偶者の復氏等） — (Surviving Spouse Reverting to Previous Surname) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-751 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-751 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-751 **第一項** 夫婦の一方が死亡したときは、生存配偶者は、婚姻前の氏に復することができる。 art-751/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-751/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-751/par-1 If one party to a marriage dies, the surviving spouse may revert to the surname used before the marriage. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 第七百六十九条の規定は、前項及び第七百二十八条第二項の場合について準用する。 art-751/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-751/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-751/par-2 The provisions of Article 769 apply mutatis mutandis to a case as referred to in the preceding paragraph or Article 728, paragraph (2). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-751/par-2: 第七百六十九条 → 民法 第七百六十九条 (Article 769), art-769 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-769 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-769 - art-751/par-2: 前項 → 民法 第七百五十一条第一項 (Article 751, paragraph (1)), art-751/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-751/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-751/par-1 - art-751/par-2: 第七百二十八条第二項 → 民法 第七百二十八条第二項 (Article 728, paragraph (2)), art-728/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-728/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-728/par-2 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 戸籍法 第十九条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/family-register-act/art-19/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000224/art-19/par-2 - 戸籍法 第九十五条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/family-register-act/art-95/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000224/art-95/par-1 - 民法 第七百五十一条第二項（生存配偶者の復氏等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-751/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-751/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 2 of 2) (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4275/tb), 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