# 民法 / Civil Code — 第九百八十二条 (Article 982) - 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: 第九百八十二条 (Article 982)（普通の方式による遺言の規定の準用） — address `art-982` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-982 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-982 - 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. --- ### 第九百八十二条（普通の方式による遺言の規定の準用） — (Mutatis Mutandis Application of Provisions on Wills Made Using Standard Formalities) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-982 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-982 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-982 **第一項** 第九百六十八条第三項及び第九百七十三条から第九百七十五条までの規定は、第九百七十六条から前条までの規定による遺言について準用する。 art-982/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-982/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-982/par-1 The provisions of Article 968, paragraph (3) and Article 973 through Article 975 apply mutatis mutandis to a will under the provisions of Article 976 through Article 981. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-982/par-1: 第九百六十八条第三項 → 民法 第九百六十八条第三項 (Article 968, paragraph (3)), art-968/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-968/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-968/par-3 - art-982/par-1: 第九百七十三条から第九百七十五条まで → 民法 第九百七十三条 (Article 973), art-973 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-973 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-973 - art-982/par-1: 第九百七十三条から第九百七十五条まで → 民法 第九百七十四条 (Article 974), art-974 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-974 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-974 - art-982/par-1: 第九百七十三条から第九百七十五条まで → 民法 第九百七十五条 (Article 975), art-975 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-975 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-975 - art-982/par-1: 第九百七十六条から前条まで → 民法 第九百七十六条 (Article 976), art-976 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-976 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-976 - art-982/par-1: 第九百七十六条から前条まで → 民法 第九百七十七条 (Article 977), art-977 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-977 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-977 - art-982/par-1: 第九百七十六条から前条まで → 民法 第九百七十八条 (Article 978), art-978 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-978 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-978 - art-982/par-1: 第九百七十六条から前条まで → 民法 第九百七十九条 (Article 979), art-979 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-979 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-979 - art-982/par-1: 第九百七十六条から前条まで → 民法 第九百八十条 (Article 980), art-980 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-980 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-980 - art-982/par-1: 第九百七十六条から前条まで → 民法 第九百八十一条 (Article 981), art-981 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-981 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-981 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 第九百八十三条第一項（特別の方式による遺言の効力） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-983/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-983/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