# 民法 / Civil Code — 第九百六条の二 (Article 906-2) - 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: 第九百六条の二 (Article 906-2)（遺産の分割前に遺産に属する財産が処分された場合の遺産の範囲） — address `art-906-2` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-906-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-906-2 - 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. --- ### 第九百六条の二（遺産の分割前に遺産に属する財産が処分された場合の遺産の範囲） — Scope of the Estate Where Property Belonging to the Estate Is Disposed of before Division of the Estate caption: machine translation, not official art-906-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-906-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-906-2 **第一項** 遺産の分割前に遺産に属する財産が処分された場合であっても、共同相続人は、その全員の同意により、当該処分された財産が遺産の分割時に遺産として存在するものとみなすことができる。 art-906-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-906-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-906-2/par-1 Even where property belonging to the estate has been disposed of before division of the estate, the coheirs may, with the consent of all of them, regard the disposed property as existing as part of the estate at the time of division of the estate. machine translation, not official **第二項** 前項の規定にかかわらず、共同相続人の一人又は数人により同項の財産が処分されたときは、当該共同相続人については、同項の同意を得ることを要しない。 art-906-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-906-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-906-2/par-2 Notwithstanding the preceding paragraph, if the property referred to in that paragraph has been disposed of by one or more of the coheirs, the consent referred to in that paragraph need not be obtained from those coheirs. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-906-2/par-2: 前項 → 民法 第九百六条の二第一項 (Article 906-2, paragraph (1)), art-906-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-906-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-906-2/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 第九百六条の二第二項（遺産の分割前に遺産に属する財産が処分された場合の遺産の範囲） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-906-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-906-2/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 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-20261011T170941-006, translated 2026-10-12 - This site's parser, version 190 — 民法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-11