In the meantime the Ministry of Home Affairs (Japan) (that dealt with registers and so on) and the Ministry of Agriculture (Japan) (that asked for early definitions of real rights and credit obligations), getting exasperated at the slow progress of the draft making by the Ministry of Justice, showed their own movement of studying the draft of Civil Code.
その間にも遅々として進まない司法省の草案作成に業を煮やした内務省(日本)（戸籍などを扱う）や農商務省(日本)（物権・債権の早期定義付けを求めた）からは、独自に民法草案の研究を開始する動きが見られた。