# 民法 / Civil Code — 第十一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 11) - 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: 第十一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 11) — address `suppl-3221-222/art-11` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/suppl-3221-222/art-11 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-3221-222/art-11 - 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. --- ### 第十一条 suppl-3221-222/art-11 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/suppl-3221-222/art-11 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-3221-222/art-11 **第一項** 新法施行前に生じた事実を原因とする離婚の請求については、なお、従前の例による。 suppl-3221-222/art-11/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/suppl-3221-222/art-11/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-3221-222/art-11/par-1 With regard to a request for divorce based on facts that arose before the New Act came into effect, the provisions then in force continue to govern. machine translation, not official **第二項** 新法第七百七十条第二項の規定は、前項の場合にこれを準用する。 suppl-3221-222/art-11/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/suppl-3221-222/art-11/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-3221-222/art-11/par-2 The provisions of Article 770, paragraph (2) of the New Act apply mutatis mutandis to the case referred to in the preceding paragraph. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-3221-222/art-11/par-2: 前項 → 民法 附則第十一条第一項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 11, paragraph (1)), suppl-3221-222/art-11/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/suppl-3221-222/art-11/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-3221-222/art-11/par-1 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 附則第十一条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/suppl-3221-222/art-11/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-3221-222/art-11/par-2 - 民法 附則第十三条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/suppl-3221-222/art-13/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-3221-222/art-13/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-20261011T170941-011, translated 2026-10-12 - This site's parser, version 190 — 民法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-11