# 民法 / Civil Code — 第三十一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 31)

- 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: 第三十一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 31) — address `suppl-3221-222/art-31`
- 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-31
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### 第三十一条
<sup>suppl-3221-222/art-31 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/suppl-3221-222/art-31 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-3221-222/art-31</sup>

**第一項**  応急措置法施行前に分家又は廃絶家再興のため贈与された財産は、新法第九百三条の規定の適用については、これを生計の資本として贈与された財産とみなす。
<sup>suppl-3221-222/art-31/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/suppl-3221-222/art-31/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-3221-222/art-31/par-1</sup>
Property gifted before the Emergency Measures Act came into effect for the establishment of a branch family or the revival of an extinct family is deemed, for the purposes of the application of the provisions of Article 903 of the New Act, to be property gifted as capital for livelihood.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## 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