# 破産法 / Bankruptcy Act — 第二百四十一条 (Article 241) - 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: 第二百四十一条 (Article 241)（限定承認又は財産分離の手続において相続債権者等が受けた弁済） — address `art-241` - Text in force since: 2026-05-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-241 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-241 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第二百四十一条（限定承認又は財産分離の手続において相続債権者等が受けた弁済） — (Payment Received by Creditors of Succession in the Procedures for Qualified Acceptance or Division of Property) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-241 · https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-241 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-241 **第一項** 相続債権者又は受遺者は、相続人について破産手続開始の決定があった後に、限定承認又は財産分離の手続において権利を行使したことにより、破産債権について弁済を受けた場合であっても、その弁済を受ける前の債権の額について破産手続に参加することができる。相続人の債権者が、相続人について破産手続開始の決定があった後に、財産分離の手続において権利を行使したことにより、破産債権について弁済を受けた場合も、同様とする。 art-241/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-241/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-241/par-1 A creditor of the succession or a legatee may participate in bankruptcy proceedings with regard to the amount of the claims at the time before receiving the payment, by exercising their rights in the procedures for qualified acceptance or division of property, even when they have received payment of their bankruptcy claims after an order of commencement bankruptcy proceedings is issued against an heir. The same applies when an heir's creditor has received payment of their bankruptcy claim after an order commencing bankruptcy proceedings is made against the heir by exercising their right in the procedure for division of property. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の相続債権者若しくは受遺者又は相続人の債権者は、他の同順位の破産債権者が自己の受けた弁済（相続人が数人ある場合には、当該破産手続開始の決定を受けた相続人の相続分に応じた部分に限る。次項において同じ。）と同一の割合の配当を受けるまでは、破産手続により、配当を受けることができない。 art-241/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-241/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-241/par-2 The creditor of the succession or legatee, or heir's creditor referred to in the preceding paragraph may not receive a distribution through bankruptcy proceedings until any other bankruptcy creditor with the same priority as them receives a distribution of the same proportion of payment as they have received (if there are two or more heirs, the payment is limited to the part corresponding to the inheritance share of the heir that has received the order commencing bankruptcy proceedings; the same applies in the following paragraph). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 第一項の相続債権者若しくは受遺者又は相続人の債権者は、前項の弁済を受けた債権の額については、議決権を行使することができない。 art-241/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-241/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-241/par-3 The creditor of the succession or legatee, or heir's creditor referred to in paragraph (1) may not exercise their voting rights with regard to the amount of the claims for which they received payment under the preceding paragraph. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-241/par-2: 前項 → 破産法 第二百四十一条第一項 (Article 241, paragraph (1)), art-241/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-241/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-241/par-1 - art-241/par-2: 次項 → 破産法 第二百四十一条第三項 (Article 241, paragraph (3)), art-241/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-241/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-241/par-3 - art-241/par-3: 第一項 → 破産法 第二百四十一条第一項 (Article 241, paragraph (1)), art-241/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-241/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-241/par-1 - art-241/par-3: 前項 → 破産法 第二百四十一条第二項 (Article 241, paragraph (2)), art-241/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-241/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-241/par-2 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 破産法 第二百四十一条第二項（限定承認又は財産分離の手続において相続債権者等が受けた弁済） — https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-241/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-241/par-2 - 破産法 第二百四十一条第三項（限定承認又は財産分離の手続において相続債権者等が受けた弁済） — https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-241/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-241/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