# 破産法 / Bankruptcy Act — 第四十八条 (Article 48) - 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: 第四十八条 (Article 48)（開始後の権利取得の効力） — address `art-48` - Text in force since: 2026-05-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-48 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-48 - 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. --- ### 第四十八条（開始後の権利取得の効力） — (Effect of Acquisition of Rights After Commencement of Bankruptcy Proceedings) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-48 · https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-48 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-48 **第一項** 破産手続開始後に破産財団に属する財産に関して破産者の法律行為によらないで権利を取得しても、その権利の取得は、破産手続の関係においては、その効力を主張することができない。 art-48/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-48/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-48/par-1 If a right is acquired after the commencement of bankruptcy proceedings with respect to property that belongs to the bankruptcy estate but it is not by way of the bankrupt's juridical act, the acquisition of the right may not be asserted effective in relation to the bankruptcy proceedings. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前条第二項の規定は、破産手続開始の日における前項の権利の取得について準用する。 art-48/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-48/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-48/par-2 The provisions of paragraph (2) of the preceding Article apply mutatis mutandis to the acquisition of the right under the preceding paragraph that occurs on the date of commencement of bankruptcy proceedings. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-48/par-2: 前条第二項 → 破産法 第四十七条第二項 (Article 47, paragraph (2)), art-47/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-47/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-47/par-2 - art-48/par-2: 前項 → 破産法 第四十八条第一項 (Article 48, paragraph (1)), art-48/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-48/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-48/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 破産法 第四十八条第二項（開始後の権利取得の効力） — https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-48/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-48/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