# 民法 / Civil Code — 第三百七条 (Article 307) - 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: 第三百七条 (Article 307)（共益費用の先取特権） — address `art-307` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-307 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-307 - 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. --- ### 第三百七条（共益費用の先取特権） — (Statutory Liens for Expenses for Common Benefit) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-307 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-307 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-307 **第一項** 共益の費用の先取特権は、各債権者の共同の利益のためにされた債務者の財産の保存、清算又は配当に関する費用について存在する。 art-307/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-307/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-307/par-1 Statutory liens for expenses for the common benefit exist with respect to the expenses of preservation, liquidation or distribution of the assets of the obligor incurred for the common benefit of all obligees. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の費用のうちすべての債権者に有益でなかったものについては、先取特権は、その費用によって利益を受けた債権者に対してのみ存在する。 art-307/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-307/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-307/par-2 With respect to expenses referred to in the preceding paragraph that were not beneficial for all obligees, the statutory lien exists solely in relation to obligees that benefited from those expenses. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-307/par-2: 前項 → 民法 第三百七条第一項 (Article 307, paragraph (1)), art-307/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-307/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-307/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 第三百七条第二項（共益費用の先取特権） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-307/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-307/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