# 民法 / Civil Code — 第九百五十八条 (Article 958) - 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: 第九百五十八条 (Article 958)（権利を主張する者がない場合） — address `art-958` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-958 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-958 - 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. --- ### 第九百五十八条（権利を主張する者がない場合） — (If No Person Asserts Rights as an Heir) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-958 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-958 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-958 **第一項** 第九百五十二条第二項の期間内に相続人としての権利を主張する者がないときは、相続人並びに相続財産の清算人に知れなかった相続債権者及び受遺者は、その権利を行使することができない。 art-958/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-958/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-958/par-1 If no person asserts rights as an heir within the period referred to in Article 952, paragraph (2), it is not permissible for an heir or for any creditor of the succession or legatee unknown to the liquidator of the estate, to exercise the rights thereof. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-958/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 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 第九百五十八条の二第一項（特別縁故者に対する相続財産の分与） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-958-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-958-2/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 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