# 民法 / Civil Code — 第八百五十六条 (Article 856) - 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: 第八百五十六条 (Article 856)（被後見人が包括財産を取得した場合についての準用） — address `art-856` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-856 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-856 - 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. --- ### 第八百五十六条（被後見人が包括財産を取得した場合についての準用） — (Mutatis Mutandis Application of Provisions If a Ward Acquires Property under Universal Title) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-856 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-856 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-856 **第一項** 前三条の規定は、後見人が就職した後被後見人が包括財産を取得した場合について準用する。 art-856/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-856/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-856/par-1 The provisions of the preceding three Articles apply mutatis mutandis if the ward acquires property under universal title after the guardian begins that role. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-856/par-1: 前三条 → 民法 第八百五十三条 (Article 853), art-853 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-853 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-853 - art-856/par-1: 前三条 → 民法 第八百五十四条 (Article 854), art-854 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-854 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-854 - art-856/par-1: 前三条 → 民法 第八百五十五条 (Article 855), art-855 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-855 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-855 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 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