# 民法 / Civil Code — 第二百九十六条 (Article 296) - Law: 民法 (Civil Code), 明治二十九年法律第八十九号 - English title "Civil Code": 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: 第二百九十六条 (Article 296)（留置権の不可分性） — address `art-296` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-296 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-296 - 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. --- ### 第二百九十六条（留置権の不可分性） — (Indivisibility of Rights of Retention) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-296 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-296 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-296 **第一項** 留置権者は、債権の全部の弁済を受けるまでは、留置物の全部についてその権利を行使することができる。 art-296/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-296/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-296/par-1 A holder of a right of retention may exercise that holder's rights against the whole of the thing retained until the relevant claim is satisfied in its entirety. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 第三百五条第一項（先取特権の不可分性） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-305/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-305/par-1 - 民法 第三百五十条第一項（留置権及び先取特権の規定の準用） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-350/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-350/par-1 - 民法 第三百七十二条第一項（留置権等の規定の準用） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-372/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-372/par-1 - 遺失物法 第二十七条第二項（費用の負担） — https://japanlaw.org/en/lost-property-act/art-27/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-27/par-2 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 民法 — the text in force from 2026-06-24 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/129AC0000000089/20260624_508AC0000000045), retrieved 2026-10-11 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Civil Code — Ministry of Justice translation (part 1 of 2) (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4848/tb), retrieved 2026-10-11 - This site's parser, version 190 — 民法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-11