# 民法 / Civil Code — 第二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 2) - 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: 第二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 2)（相続財産の保存に必要な処分に関する経過措置） — address `suppl-5031-24/art-2` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/suppl-5031-24/art-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-5031-24/art-2 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第二条（相続財産の保存に必要な処分に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures Concerning Dispositions Necessary for the Preservation of an Estate caption: machine translation, not official suppl-5031-24/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/suppl-5031-24/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-5031-24/art-2 **第一項** この法律の施行の日（以下「施行日」という。）前に第一条の規定による改正前の民法（以下「旧民法」という。）第九百十八条第二項（旧民法第九百二十六条第二項（旧民法第九百三十六条第三項において準用する場合を含む。）及び第九百四十条第二項において準用する場合を含む。次項において同じ。）の規定によりされた相続財産の保存に必要な処分は、施行日以後は、第一条の規定による改正後の民法（以下「新民法」という。）第八百九十七条の二の規定によりされた相続財産の保存に必要な処分とみなす。 suppl-5031-24/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/suppl-5031-24/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-5031-24/art-2/par-1 A disposition necessary for the preservation of an estate that was made, before the day on which this Act comes into effect (hereinafter referred to as the "Effective Date"), pursuant to the provisions of Article 918, paragraph (2) of the Civil Code before its amendment by the provisions of Article 1 (hereinafter referred to as the "Former Civil Code") (including the case where it is applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 926, paragraph (2) of the Former Civil Code (including the case where it is applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 936, paragraph (3) of the Former Civil Code) and Article 940, paragraph (2) of the Former Civil Code; the same applies in the following paragraph) is deemed, on or after the Effective Date, to be a disposition necessary for the preservation of an estate made pursuant to the provisions of Article 897-2 of the Civil Code as amended by the provisions of Article 1 (hereinafter referred to as the "New Civil Code"). machine translation, not official **第二項** 施行日前に旧民法第九百十八条第二項の規定によりされた相続財産の保存に必要な処分の請求（施行日前に当該請求に係る審判が確定したものを除く。）は、施行日以後は、新民法第八百九十七条の二の規定によりされた相続財産の保存に必要な処分の請求とみなす。 suppl-5031-24/art-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/suppl-5031-24/art-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-5031-24/art-2/par-2 A request for a disposition necessary for the preservation of an estate that was made before the Effective Date pursuant to the provisions of Article 918, paragraph (2) of the Former Civil Code (excluding a request for which the decision relating to that request became final and binding before the Effective Date) is deemed, on or after the Effective Date, to be a request for a disposition necessary for the preservation of an estate made pursuant to the provisions of Article 897-2 of the New Civil Code. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-5031-24/art-2/par-1: 次項 → 民法 附則第二条第二項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 2, paragraph (2)), suppl-5031-24/art-2/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/suppl-5031-24/art-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-5031-24/art-2/par-2 - suppl-5031-24/art-2/par-1: 第八百九十七条の二 → 民法 第八百九十七条の二 (Article 897-2), art-897-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-897-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-897-2 - suppl-5031-24/art-2/par-2: 新民法第八百九十七条の二 → 民法 第八百九十七条の二 (Article 897-2), art-897-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-897-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-897-2 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 附則第二条第一項（相続財産の保存に必要な処分に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/suppl-5031-24/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-5031-24/art-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 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-20261011T170941-025, translated 2026-10-12 - This site's parser, version 190 — 民法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-11