# 民法 / Civil Code — 第二十五条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 25) - 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: 第二十五条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 25) — address `suppl-3221-222/art-25` - 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-25 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-3221-222/art-25 - 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. --- ### 第二十五条 suppl-3221-222/art-25 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/suppl-3221-222/art-25 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-3221-222/art-25 **第一項** 応急措置法施行前に開始した相続に関しては、第二項の場合を除いて、なお、旧法を適用する。 suppl-3221-222/art-25/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/suppl-3221-222/art-25/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-3221-222/art-25/par-1 With regard to a succession that opened before the Emergency Measures Act came into effect, the Former Act still applies, except in the case referred to in paragraph (2). machine translation, not official **第二項** 応急措置法施行前に家督相続が開始し、新法施行後に旧法によれば家督相続人を選定しなければならない場合には、その相続に関しては、新法を適用する。但し、その相続の開始が入夫婚姻の取消、入夫の離婚又は養子縁組の取消によるときは、その相続は、財産の相続に関しては開始しなかつたものとみなし、第二十八条の規定を準用する。 suppl-3221-222/art-25/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/suppl-3221-222/art-25/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-3221-222/art-25/par-2 If succession to the headship of a house opened before the Emergency Measures Act came into effect, and a successor to the headship must be selected under the Former Act after the New Act comes into effect, the New Act applies to that succession; provided, however, that if the opening of that succession is due to the cancellation of a marriage by entry of a husband, the divorce of a husband who entered the household, or the annulment of an adoption, that succession is deemed not to have opened with respect to succession to property, and the provisions of Article 28 of these Supplementary Provisions apply mutatis mutandis. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-3221-222/art-25/par-1: 第二項 → 民法 附則第二十五条第二項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 25, paragraph (2)), suppl-3221-222/art-25/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/suppl-3221-222/art-25/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-3221-222/art-25/par-2 - suppl-3221-222/art-25/par-2: 第二十八条 → 民法 附則第二十八条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 28), suppl-3221-222/art-28 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/suppl-3221-222/art-28 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-3221-222/art-28 ## Cited by 5 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 附則第二十五条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/suppl-3221-222/art-25/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-3221-222/art-25/par-1 - 民法 附則第二十七条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/suppl-3221-222/art-27/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-3221-222/art-27/par-1 - 民法 附則第三十条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/suppl-3221-222/art-30/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-3221-222/art-30/par-1 - 民法 附則第三十二条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/suppl-3221-222/art-32/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-3221-222/art-32/par-1 - 民法 附則第十九条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/suppl-3231-260/art-19/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-3231-260/art-19/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-20261011T170941-012, translated 2026-10-12 - This site's parser, version 190 — 民法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-11