# 民法 / Civil Code — 第三百七十六条 (Article 376) - 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: 第三百七十六条 (Article 376)（抵当権の処分） — address `art-376` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-376 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-376 - 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. --- ### 第三百七十六条（抵当権の処分） — (Disposition of Mortgages) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-376 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-376 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-376 **第一項** 抵当権者は、その抵当権を他の債権の担保とし、又は同一の債務者に対する他の債権者の利益のためにその抵当権若しくはその順位を譲渡し、若しくは放棄することができる。 art-376/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-376/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-376/par-1 A mortgagee may apply the mortgage to secure other claims, or assign or waive that mortgage, or its order of priority, for the benefit of other obligees of the same obligor. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の場合において、抵当権者が数人のためにその抵当権の処分をしたときは、その処分の利益を受ける者の権利の順位は、抵当権の登記にした付記の前後による。 art-376/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-376/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-376/par-2 In the cases referred to in the preceding paragraph, if a mortgagee disposes of the mortgage for the benefit of two or more persons, the order of priority of the rights of persons who benefit from that disposition follows the chronological order of supplemental registration in the registration of the mortgage. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-376/par-2: 前項 → 民法 第三百七十六条第一項 (Article 376, paragraph (1)), art-376/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-376/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-376/par-1 ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 不動産登記法 第九十条第一項（抵当権の処分の登記） — https://japanlaw.org/en/real-property-registration-act/art-90/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000123/art-90/par-1 - 民法 第三百七十六条第二項（抵当権の処分） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-376/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-376/par-2 - 民法 第三百七十七条第一項（抵当権の処分の対抗要件） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-377/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-377/par-1 - 民法 第三百九十八条の十一第一項（根抵当権の処分） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-398-11/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-398-11/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