# 民法 / Civil Code — 第三百三十条 (Article 330) - 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: 第三百三十条 (Article 330)（動産の先取特権の順位） — address `art-330` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-330 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-330 - 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. --- ### 第三百三十条（動産の先取特権の順位） — (Order of Priority of Statutory Liens over Movables) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-330 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-330 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-330 **第一項** 同一の動産について特別の先取特権が互いに競合する場合には、その優先権の順位は、次に掲げる順序に従う。この場合において、第二号に掲げる動産の保存の先取特権について数人の保存者があるときは、後の保存者が前の保存者に優先する。 art-330/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-330/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-330/par-1 If there are competing special statutory liens against the same movables, the order of priority follows the order stated below. In this case, if there are two or more preservers with respect to the statutory liens for preservation of movables stated in item (ii), a new preserver has priority over previous preservers: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 不動産の賃貸、旅館の宿泊及び運輸の先取特権 art-330/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-330/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-330/par-1/item-1 statutory liens for leases of immovables, lodging at hotels and transportation; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 動産の保存の先取特権 art-330/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-330/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-330/par-1/item-2 statutory liens for the preservation of movables; and Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **三** 動産の売買、種苗又は肥料の供給、農業の労務及び工業の労務の先取特権 art-330/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-330/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-330/par-1/item-3 statutory liens for the sale of movables, the supply of seeds and seedlings or fertilizer, agricultural labor and industrial labor. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の場合において、第一順位の先取特権者は、その債権取得の時において第二順位又は第三順位の先取特権者があることを知っていたときは、これらの者に対して優先権を行使することができない。第一順位の先取特権者のために物を保存した者に対しても、同様とする。 art-330/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-330/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-330/par-2 In the cases referred to in the preceding paragraph, if a holder of a statutory lien ranked first knew at the time of acquiring the relevant claim of the existence of a holder of a statutory lien of the second or third rank, that holder may not exercise the relevant rights of priority against those persons. The same applies to the exercise against persons that have preserved things on behalf of the holder of a statutory lien of the first rank. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 果実に関しては、第一の順位は農業の労務に従事する者に、第二の順位は種苗又は肥料の供給者に、第三の順位は土地の賃貸人に属する。 art-330/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-330/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-330/par-3 Regarding fruits, the first rank belongs to persons who engage in agricultural labor, the second rank belongs to persons that supply seeds and seedlings or fertilizer, and the third rank belongs to lessors of land. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-330/par-1: 第二号 → 民法 第三百三十条第一項第二号 (Article 330, paragraph (1), item (ii)), art-330/par-1/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-330/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-330/par-1/item-2 - art-330/par-2: 前項 → 民法 第三百三十条第一項 (Article 330, paragraph (1)), art-330/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-330/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-330/par-1 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 第三百三十条第一項（動産の先取特権の順位） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-330/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-330/par-1 - 民法 第三百三十条第二項（動産の先取特権の順位） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-330/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-330/par-2 - 民法 第三百三十四条第一項（先取特権と動産質権との競合） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-334/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-334/par-1 --- ## 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