# 破産法 / Bankruptcy Act — 第百六十七条 (Article 167) - Law: 破産法 (Bankruptcy Act), 平成十六年法律第七十五号 - English title "Bankruptcy Act": 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: 第百六十七条 (Article 167)（否認権行使の効果） — address `art-167` - Text in force since: 2026-05-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-167 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-167 - 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. --- ### 第百六十七条（否認権行使の効果） — (Effect of Exercise of Right of Avoidance) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-167 · https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-167 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-167 **第一項** 否認権の行使は、破産財団を原状に復させる。 art-167/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-167/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-167/par-1 The exercise of a right of avoidance restores the bankruptcy estate to its original state. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 第百六十条第三項に規定する行為が否認された場合において、相手方は、当該行為の当時、支払の停止等があったこと及び破産債権者を害することを知らなかったときは、その現に受けている利益を償還すれば足りる。 art-167/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-167/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-167/par-2 When the act prescribed in Article 160, paragraph (3) is avoided, if the other party did not know that suspension of payments, etc. had taken place nor that the act would prejudice a bankruptcy creditor at the time of the act, it is sufficient for the other party to reimburse the benefit that have actually received. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-167/par-2: 第百六十条第三項 → 破産法 第百六十条第三項 (Article 160, paragraph (3)), art-160/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-160/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-160/par-3 ## Cited by 5 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 会社法 第五百七十四条第三項（破産手続開始の決定） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-574/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-574/par-3 - 破産法 第百六十八条第四項（破産者の受けた反対給付に関する相手方の権利等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-168/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-168/par-4 - 破産法 第百七十条第二項（転得者に対する否認権） — https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-170/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-170/par-2 - 破産法 第百七十条の二第五項（破産者の受けた反対給付に関する転得者の権利等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-170-2/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-170-2/par-5 - 破産法 第二百三十五条第二項（受遺者に対する担保の供与等の否認） — https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-235/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-235/par-2 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 破産法 — the text in force from 2026-05-21 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/416AC0000000075/20260521_505AC0000000053), retrieved 2026-10-19 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Bankruptcy Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4895/tb), retrieved 2026-10-19 - This site's parser, version 204 — 破産法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-19