Page:The Civil code of Japan (IA cu31924069576704).pdf/232
— 212 —
cation of the wife require the husband who is managing her property to give proper security for its management and restoration.
804.
In the daily affairs of the household the wife is deemed to represent her husband.
The husband may wholly or partly deprive her of such power, but he cannot set up such deprivation against third persons acting in good faith.
805.
A husband in managing his wife’s property, or a wife in representing her husband, is bound to use the same care as in his or her own affairs.
806.
The provisions of Arts. 654 and 655 apply correspondingly to the husband’s management of his wife’s property or the wife’s representation of her husband.
807.
Such property as a wife or the husband of the head of a house had before the marriage, or acquires during the marriage in his or her own name, is his or her separate property.
Property as to which it is doubtful whether it belongs to the husband or to the wife is presumed to belong to the husband, or to the wife if she is the head of the house.