# 民法 / Civil Code — 第七百七十六条 (Article 776)

- 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: 第七百七十六条 (Article 776)（嫡出の承認） — address `art-776`
- Text in force since: 2026-06-24
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-776
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-776
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### 第七百七十六条（嫡出の承認） — (Acknowledgment of Child in Wedlock)
<sup>caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>
<sup>art-776 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-776 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-776</sup>

    **第一項**  父又は母は、子の出生後において、その嫡出であることを承認したときは、それぞれその否認権を失う。
    <sup>art-776/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-776/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-776/par-1</sup>
    If a father or mother acknowledges, after the child is born, that the child is his or her child in wedlock, the father or mother, respectively, loses his or her right to rebut the presumption.
    <sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

## Cited by

1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 民法 附則第四条第二項（嫡出の否認及び嫡出の承認に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/suppl-5041-102/art-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-5041-102/art-4/par-2

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## 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
- claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch civil-code-20261011T170941-002, translated 2026-10-12
- This site's parser, version 190 — 民法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-11