# 民法 / Civil Code — 第八百八十七条 (Article 887) - 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: 第八百八十七条 (Article 887)（子及びその代襲者等の相続権） — address `art-887` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-887 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-887 - 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. --- ### 第八百八十七条（子及びその代襲者等の相続権） — (Right of Inheritance of Children and Their Heirs, Per Stirpes) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-887 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-887 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-887 **第一項** 被相続人の子は、相続人となる。 art-887/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-887/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-887/par-1 The children of the decedent become heirs thereof. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 被相続人の子が、相続の開始以前に死亡したとき、又は第八百九十一条の規定に該当し、若しくは廃除によって、その相続権を失ったときは、その者の子がこれを代襲して相続人となる。ただし、被相続人の直系卑属でない者は、この限りでない。 art-887/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-887/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-887/par-2 If a child of the decedent dies before the opening of the succession or loses the right of inheritance through the application of the provisions of Article 891 or through disinheritance, the children of such a child become heirs of the decedent, per stirpes; provided, however, that this does not apply to a person who is not a lineal descendant of the decedent. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 前項の規定は、代襲者が、相続の開始以前に死亡し、又は第八百九十一条の規定に該当し、若しくは廃除によって、その代襲相続権を失った場合について準用する。 art-887/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-887/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-887/par-3 The provisions of the preceding paragraph apply mutatis mutandis if a person who would have become an heir per stirpes dies before the opening of the succession or if that person loses the right to take per stirpes through the application of the provisions of Article 891 or through disinheritance. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-887/par-2: 第八百九十一条 → 民法 第八百九十一条 (Article 891), art-891 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-891 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-891 - art-887/par-3: 前項 → 民法 第八百八十七条第二項 (Article 887, paragraph (2)), art-887/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-887/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-887/par-2 - art-887/par-3: 第八百九十一条 → 民法 第八百九十一条 (Article 891), art-891 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-891 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-891 ## Cited by 5 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 第八百八十七条第三項（子及びその代襲者等の相続権） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-887/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-887/par-3 - 民法 第八百八十九条第一項（直系尊属及び兄弟姉妹の相続権） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-889/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-889/par-1 - 民法 第八百八十九条第二項（直系尊属及び兄弟姉妹の相続権） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-889/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-889/par-2 - 民法 第八百九十条第一項（配偶者の相続権） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-890/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-890/par-1 - 民法 第九百一条第一項（代襲相続人の相続分） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-901/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-901/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