# 民法 / Civil Code — 第八百八条 (Article 808) - 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: 第八百八条 (Article 808)（婚姻の取消し等の規定の準用） — address `art-808` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-808 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-808 - 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. --- ### 第八百八条（婚姻の取消し等の規定の準用） — (Mutatis Mutandis Application of Provisions on Cancellation of a Marriage) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-808 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-808 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-808 **第一項** 第七百四十七条及び第七百四十八条の規定は、縁組について準用する。この場合において、第七百四十七条第二項中「三箇月」とあるのは、「六箇月」と読み替えるものとする。 art-808/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-808/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-808/par-1 The provisions of Article 747 and Article 748 apply mutatis mutandis to adoption. In this case, the term "three months" in Article 747, paragraph (2) is deemed to be replaced with "six months". Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 第七百六十九条及び第八百十六条の規定は、縁組の取消しについて準用する。 art-808/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-808/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-808/par-2 The provisions of Article 769 and Article 816 apply mutatis mutandis to the annulment of an adoption. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-808/par-1: 第七百四十七条 → 民法 第七百四十七条 (Article 747), art-747 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-747 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-747 - art-808/par-1: 第七百四十八条 → 民法 第七百四十八条 (Article 748), art-748 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-748 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-748 - art-808/par-1: 第七百四十七条第二項 → 民法 第七百四十七条第二項 (Article 747, paragraph (2)), art-747/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-747/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-747/par-2 - art-808/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-808/par-2: 第八百十六条 → 民法 第八百十六条 (Article 816), art-816 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-816 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-816 ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 戸籍法 第十九条第三項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/family-register-act/art-19/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000224/art-19/par-3 - 戸籍法 第六十九条の二第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/family-register-act/art-69-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000224/art-69-2/par-1 - 民法 第八百三条第一項（縁組の取消し） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-803/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-803/par-1 - 民法 附則第四条第一項（離縁等の場合の氏に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/suppl-3621-101/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-3621-101/art-4/par-1 --- ## 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