# 民法 / Civil Code — 第八百五十五条 (Article 855) - 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: 第八百五十五条 (Article 855)（後見人の被後見人に対する債権又は債務の申出義務） — address `art-855` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-855 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-855 - 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. --- ### 第八百五十五条（後見人の被後見人に対する債権又は債務の申出義務） — (Guardian's Duty to Report Claims and Obligations in Respect of the Ward) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-855 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-855 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-855 **第一項** 後見人が、被後見人に対し、債権を有し、又は債務を負う場合において、後見監督人があるときは、財産の調査に着手する前に、これを後見監督人に申し出なければならない。 art-855/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-855/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-855/par-1 If a guardian holds a claim against the ward or bears an obligation thereto, the guardian must report this to the supervisor, if there is one, before undertaking the search for assets. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 後見人が、被後見人に対し債権を有することを知ってこれを申し出ないときは、その債権を失う。 art-855/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-855/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-855/par-2 If a guardian knows of a claim that the guardian holds against the ward and does not report it, this claim is lost. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 第八百五十六条第一項（被後見人が包括財産を取得した場合についての準用） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-856/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-856/par-1 - 民法 第八百六十七条第二項（未成年被後見人に代わる親権の行使） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-867/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-867/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