# 民法 / Civil Code — 第九百三十六条 (Article 936) - 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: 第九百三十六条 (Article 936)（相続人が数人ある場合の相続財産の清算人） — address `art-936` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-936 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-936 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第九百三十六条（相続人が数人ある場合の相続財産の清算人） — Liquidator of the Estate If There Are Multiple Heirs caption: machine translation, not official art-936 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-936 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-936 **第一項** 相続人が数人ある場合には、家庭裁判所は、相続人の中から、相続財産の清算人を選任しなければならない。 art-936/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-936/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-936/par-1 If there are multiple heirs, the family court must appoint a liquidator to the estate from among the heirs. machine translation, not official **第二項** 前項の相続財産の清算人は、相続人のために、これに代わって、相続財産の管理及び債務の弁済に必要な一切の行為をする。 art-936/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-936/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-936/par-2 A liquidator to an estate as referred to in the preceding paragraph undertakes all necessary acts to administer the estate and pay the debts thereof on behalf of the heirs. machine translation, not official **第三項** 第九百二十六条から前条までの規定は、第一項の相続財産の清算人について準用する。この場合において、第九百二十七条第一項中「限定承認をした後五日以内」とあるのは、「その相続財産の清算人の選任があった後十日以内」と読み替えるものとする。 art-936/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-936/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-936/par-3 The provisions of Article 926 through Article 935 apply mutatis mutandis to an estate liquidator as referred to in paragraph (1). In this case, the phrase "within five days of asserting the qualified acceptance" in Article 927, paragraph (1) is deemed to be replaced with "within ten days of the appointment of the liquidator of the estate". machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-936/par-2: 前項 → 民法 第九百三十六条第一項 (Article 936, paragraph (1)), art-936/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-936/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-936/par-1 - art-936/par-3: 第九百二十六条から前条まで → 民法 第九百二十六条 (Article 926), art-926 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-926 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-926 - art-936/par-3: 第九百二十六条から前条まで → 民法 第九百二十七条 (Article 927), art-927 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-927 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-927 - art-936/par-3: 第九百二十六条から前条まで → 民法 第九百二十八条 (Article 928), art-928 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-928 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-928 - art-936/par-3: 第九百二十六条から前条まで → 民法 第九百二十九条 (Article 929), art-929 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-929 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-929 - art-936/par-3: 第九百二十六条から前条まで → 民法 第九百三十条 (Article 930), art-930 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-930 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-930 - art-936/par-3: 第九百二十六条から前条まで → 民法 第九百三十一条 (Article 931), art-931 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-931 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-931 - art-936/par-3: 第九百二十六条から前条まで → 民法 第九百三十二条 (Article 932), art-932 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-932 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-932 - art-936/par-3: 第九百二十六条から前条まで → 民法 第九百三十三条 (Article 933), art-933 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-933 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-933 - art-936/par-3: 第九百二十六条から前条まで → 民法 第九百三十四条 (Article 934), art-934 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-934 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-934 - art-936/par-3: 第九百二十六条から前条まで → 民法 第九百三十五条 (Article 935), art-935 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-935 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-935 - art-936/par-3: 第一項 → 民法 第九百三十六条第一項 (Article 936, paragraph (1)), art-936/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-936/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-936/par-1 - art-936/par-3: 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 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 第九百三十六条第二項（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-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-936/par-2 - 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 附則第四条第一項（相続財産の清算に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/suppl-5031-24/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-5031-24/art-4/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 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 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch civil-code-20261011T170941-007, translated 2026-10-12 - This site's parser, version 190 — 民法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-11