# 破産法 / Bankruptcy Act — 第七十条 (Article 70) - 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: 第七十条 (Article 70)（停止条件付債権等を有する者による寄託の請求） — address `art-70` - Text in force since: 2026-05-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-70 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-70 - 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. --- ### 第七十条（停止条件付債権等を有する者による寄託の請求） — (Requests for Bailments by Holders of Claims Subject to Condition Precedent) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-70 · https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-70 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-70 **第一項** 停止条件付債権又は将来の請求権を有する者は、破産者に対する債務を弁済する場合には、後に相殺をするため、その債権額の限度において弁済額の寄託を請求することができる。敷金の返還請求権を有する者が破産者に対する賃料債務を弁済する場合も、同様とする。 art-70/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-70/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-70/par-1 If a person that holds a claim subject to a condition precedent or a claim which may arise in the future pays their debt to the bankrupt, in order to offset a debt later, the person may request a bailment of the amount of payment up to the amount of their claim. The same applies when a person that holds a claim to refund the security deposit pays their rent debt. 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 第二百一条第二項（配当額の定め及び通知） — https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-201/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-201/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