# 民法 / Civil Code — 第三百六十四条 (Article 364) - 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: 第三百六十四条 (Article 364)（債権を目的とする質権の対抗要件） — address `art-364` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-364 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-364 - 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. --- ### 第三百六十四条（債権を目的とする質権の対抗要件） — (Requirements for Perfection of Pledges over Claims) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-364 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-364 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-364 **第一項** 債権を目的とする質権の設定（現に発生していない債権を目的とするものを含む。）は、第四百六十七条の規定に従い、第三債務者にその質権の設定を通知し、又は第三債務者がこれを承諾しなければ、これをもって第三債務者その他の第三者に対抗することができない。 art-364/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-364/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-364/par-1 The creation of a pledge over a claim (including a pledge over a claim which has not yet arisen) may not be duly asserted against a third party obligor and other third parties unless notice of the creation of the pledge is given to that third party obligor in accordance with the provisions of Article 467, or unless that third party obligors gives consent to the same. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-364/par-1: 第四百六十七条 → 民法 第四百六十七条 (Article 467), art-467 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-467 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-467 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 会社法 第百四十七条第三項（株式の質入れの対抗要件） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-147/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-147/par-3 - 民法 附則第十一条第一項（債権を目的とする質権の対抗要件に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/suppl-4291-44/art-11/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-4291-44/art-11/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