# 破産法 / Bankruptcy Act — 第二百三十四条 (Article 234) - 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: 第二百三十四条 (Article 234)（否認権に関する規定の適用関係） — address `art-234` - Text in force since: 2026-05-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-234 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-234 - 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. --- ### 第二百三十四条（否認権に関する規定の適用関係） — (Application of Provisions on the Right of Avoidance) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-234 · https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-234 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-234 **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おける第六章第二節の規定の適用については、被相続人、相続人、相続財産の管理人、相続財産の清算人又は遺言執行者が相続財産に関してした行為は、破産者がした行為とみなす。 art-234/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-234/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-234/par-1 For the purpose of application of the provisions of Chapter VI, Section 2, when an order commencing bankruptcy proceedings is issued against an estate, an act conducted by the decedent, an heir, an administrator of the estate, liquidator of the estate, or an executor with respect to the estate is deemed to have been conducted by the bankrupt. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 破産法 附則第四条第一項（否認に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/suppl-4161-75/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/suppl-4161-75/art-4/par-1 --- ## 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