# 民法 / Civil Code — 第三百六十二条 (Article 362) - 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: 第三百六十二条 (Article 362)（権利質の目的等） — address `art-362` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-362 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-362 - 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. --- ### 第三百六十二条（権利質の目的等） — (Subject of Pledges of Rights) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-362 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-362 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-362 **第一項** 質権は、財産権をその目的とすることができる。 art-362/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-362/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-362/par-1 A pledge may have a property right for its subject. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の質権については、この節に定めるもののほか、その性質に反しない限り、前三節（総則、動産質及び不動産質）の規定を準用する。 art-362/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-362/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-362/par-2 Beyond what is provided for in this Section, the provisions of the preceding three Sections (General Provisions, Pledges on Movables and Pledges of Immovables) apply mutatis mutandis to pledges referred to in the preceding paragraph, provided that it is not inconsistent with the nature of the same. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-362/par-2: 前項 → 民法 第三百六十二条第一項 (Article 362, paragraph (1)), art-362/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-362/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-362/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 第三百六十二条第二項（権利質の目的等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-362/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-362/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