# 民法 / Civil Code — 第九百五十三条 (Article 953) - 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: 第九百五十三条 (Article 953)（不在者の財産の管理人に関する規定の準用） — address `art-953` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-953 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-953 - 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. --- ### 第九百五十三条（不在者の財産の管理人に関する規定の準用） — (Mutatis Mutandis Application of Provisions on the Administrator of an Absentee's Property) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-953 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-953 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-953 **第一項** 第二十七条から第二十九条までの規定は、前条第一項の相続財産の清算人（以下この章において単に「相続財産の清算人」という。）について準用する。 art-953/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-953/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-953/par-1 The provisions of Article 27 through Article 29 apply mutatis mutandis to the liquidator of an estate as referred to in paragraph (1) of the preceding Article (referred to simply as the "Liquidator of the Estate" hereinafter in this Chapter). machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-953/par-1: 第二十七条から第二十九条まで → 民法 第二十七条 (Article 27), art-27 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-27 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-27 - art-953/par-1: 第二十七条から第二十九条まで → 民法 第二十八条 (Article 28), art-28 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-28 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-28 - art-953/par-1: 第二十七条から第二十九条まで → 民法 第二十九条 (Article 29), art-29 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-29 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-29 - art-953/par-1: 前条第一項 → 民法 第九百五十二条第一項 (Article 952, paragraph (1)), art-952/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-952/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-952/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 附則第四条第二項（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-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-5031-24/art-4/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 - 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