# 民法 / Civil Code — 第九百三十五条 (Article 935) - 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: 第九百三十五条 (Article 935)（公告期間内に申出をしなかった相続債権者及び受遺者） — address `art-935` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-935 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-935 - 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. --- ### 第九百三十五条（公告期間内に申出をしなかった相続債権者及び受遺者） — (Creditors of the Succession and Legatees Not Filing within the Period under Public Notice) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-935 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-935 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-935 **第一項** 第九百二十七条第一項の期間内に同項の申出をしなかった相続債権者及び受遺者で限定承認者に知れなかったものは、残余財産についてのみその権利を行使することができる。ただし、相続財産について特別担保を有する者は、この限りでない。 art-935/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-935/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-935/par-1 A creditor of a succession or legatee that fails to make the filing referred to in Article 927, paragraph (1) within the period referred to in that paragraph and that was unknown to the heir asserting the qualified acceptance, may only exercise rights over the residuary estate; provided, however, that this does not apply to a person with a specific security interest in the estate. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-935/par-1: 第九百二十七条第一項 → 民法 第九百二十七条第一項 (Article 927, paragraph (1)), art-927/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-927/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-927/par-1 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 第九百三十六条第三項（相続人が数人ある場合の相続財産の清算人） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-936/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-936/par-3 - 民法 第九百五十七条第二項（相続債権者及び受遺者に対する弁済） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-957/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-957/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