# 民法 / Civil Code — 第三百七十七条 (Article 377) - 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: 第三百七十七条 (Article 377)（抵当権の処分の対抗要件） — address `art-377` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-377 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-377 - 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. --- ### 第三百七十七条（抵当権の処分の対抗要件） — (Requirements for Perfection of Disposition of Mortgages) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-377 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-377 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-377 **第一項** 前条の場合には、第四百六十七条の規定に従い、主たる債務者に抵当権の処分を通知し、又は主たる債務者がこれを承諾しなければ、これをもって主たる債務者、保証人、抵当権設定者及びこれらの者の承継人に対抗することができない。 art-377/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-377/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-377/par-1 In the cases in the preceding Article, the mortgagee may not duly assert the disposition of mortgages against principal obligors, guarantors, mortgagors or their respective successors unless the disposition is notified to the principal obligors or the principal obligors consent to that disposition in accordance with the provisions of Article 467. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 主たる債務者が前項の規定により通知を受け、又は承諾をしたときは、抵当権の処分の利益を受ける者の承諾を得ないでした弁済は、その受益者に対抗することができない。 art-377/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-377/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-377/par-2 If the principal obligors have received the notice or given the consent pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, payments made without the consent of the persons who benefit of the disposition of the mortgage may not be duly asserted against those beneficiaries. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-377/par-1: 前条 → 民法 第三百七十六条 (Article 376), art-376 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-376 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-376 - art-377/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 - art-377/par-2: 前項 → 民法 第三百七十七条第一項 (Article 377, paragraph (1)), art-377/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-377/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-377/par-1 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 第三百七十七条第二項（抵当権の処分の対抗要件） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-377/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-377/par-2 - 民法 第三百九十八条の十一第二項（根抵当権の処分） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-398-11/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-398-11/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