# 民法 / Civil Code — 第九百五十七条 (Article 957) - 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: 第九百五十七条 (Article 957)（相続債権者及び受遺者に対する弁済） — address `art-957` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-957 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-957 - 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. --- ### 第九百五十七条（相続債権者及び受遺者に対する弁済） — (Making Payment or Delivery to the Creditors of the Succession and Legatees) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-957 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-957 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-957 **第一項** 第九百五十二条第二項の公告があったときは、相続財産の清算人は、全ての相続債権者及び受遺者に対し、二箇月以上の期間を定めて、その期間内にその請求の申出をすべき旨を公告しなければならない。この場合において、その期間は、同項の規定により相続人が権利を主張すべき期間として家庭裁判所が公告した期間内に満了するものでなければならない。 art-957/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-957/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-957/par-1 If the public notice referred to in Article 952, paragraph (2) has been issued, the Liquidator of the Estate must issue public notice to all creditors of the succession and legatees, specifying a period of two months or more, indicating that they must file their claims within that period. In this case, that period must expire within the period publicly noticed by the family court, pursuant to that paragraph, as the period during which an heir must assert the heir's rights. machine translation, not official **第二項** 第九百二十七条第二項から第四項まで及び第九百二十八条から第九百三十五条まで（第九百三十二条ただし書を除く。）の規定は、前項の場合について準用する。 art-957/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-957/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-957/par-2 The provisions of Article 927, paragraph (2) through (4) and Article 928 through Article 935 (excluding the proviso to Article 932) apply mutatis mutandis to a case as referred to in the preceding paragraph. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-957/par-1: 第九百五十二条第二項 → 民法 第九百五十二条第二項 (Article 952, paragraph (2)), art-952/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-952/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-952/par-2 - art-957/par-2: 第九百二十七条第二項から第四項まで → 民法 第九百二十七条第二項 (Article 927, paragraph (2)), art-927/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-927/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-927/par-2 - art-957/par-2: 第九百二十七条第二項から第四項まで → 民法 第九百二十七条第三項 (Article 927, paragraph (3)), art-927/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-927/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-927/par-3 - art-957/par-2: 第九百二十七条第二項から第四項まで → 民法 第九百二十七条第四項 (Article 927, paragraph (4)), art-927/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-927/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-927/par-4 - art-957/par-2: 第九百二十八条から第九百三十五条まで → 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-957/par-2: 第九百二十八条から第九百三十五条まで → 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-957/par-2: 第九百二十八条から第九百三十五条まで → 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-957/par-2: 第九百二十八条から第九百三十五条まで → 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-957/par-2: 第九百二十八条から第九百三十五条まで → 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-957/par-2: 第九百二十八条から第九百三十五条まで → 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-957/par-2: 第九百二十八条から第九百三十五条まで → 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-957/par-2: 第九百二十八条から第九百三十五条まで → 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-957/par-2: 前項 → 民法 第九百五十七条第一項 (Article 957, paragraph (1)), art-957/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-957/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-957/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 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 - 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