# 破産法 / Bankruptcy Act — 第二百二十九条 (Article 229) - 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: 第二百二十九条 (Article 229)（破産財団の範囲） — address `art-229` - Text in force since: 2026-05-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-229 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-229 - 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. --- ### 第二百二十九条（破産財団の範囲） — (Scope of Bankruptcy Estates) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-229 · https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-229 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-229 **第一項** 相続財産について破産手続開始の決定があった場合には、相続財産に属する一切の財産（日本国内にあるかどうかを問わない。）は、破産財団とする。この場合においては、被相続人が相続人に対して有していた権利は、消滅しなかったものとみなす。 art-229/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-229/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-229/par-1 If an order commencing bankruptcy proceedings is issued against an estate, any property that belongs to the estate (irrespective of whether it exists in Japan) is to constitute the bankruptcy estate. In this case, rights that the decedent held vis-à-vis an heir are deemed not to have been extinguished. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 相続人が相続財産の全部又は一部を処分した後に相続財産について破産手続開始の決定があったときは、相続人が反対給付について有する権利は、破産財団に属する。 art-229/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-229/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-229/par-2 If an order commencing bankruptcy proceedings is issued against estate after an heir has disposed of all or a part of the estate, rights that the heir holds with regard to counter-performance belong to the bankruptcy estate. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 前項に規定する場合において、相続人が既に同項の反対給付を受けているときは、相続人は、当該反対給付を破産財団に返還しなければならない。ただし、相続人が当該反対給付を受けた当時、破産手続開始の原因となる事実又は破産手続開始の申立てがあったことを知らなかったときは、その現に受けている利益を返還すれば足りる。 art-229/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-229/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-229/par-3 In the case prescribed in the preceding paragraph, if the heir has already received the counter-performance stated in that paragraph, the heir must return the counter-performance to the bankruptcy estate; provided, however, that if the heir did not know at the time of receiving the counter-performance, the fact constituting the grounds for the commencement of bankruptcy proceedings or the fact that the filing of a petition to commence bankruptcy proceedings has been made, it is sufficient for the heir to return the benefit that they hold. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-229/par-3: 前項 → 破産法 第二百二十九条第二項 (Article 229, paragraph (2)), art-229/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-229/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-229/par-2 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 破産法 第二百二十九条第三項（破産財団の範囲） — https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-229/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-229/par-3 --- ## 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