# 民法 / Civil Code — 第三百九十八条の十一 (Article 398-11) - 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: 第三百九十八条の十一 (Article 398-11)（根抵当権の処分） — address `art-398-11` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-398-11 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-398-11 - 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. --- ### 第三百九十八条の十一（根抵当権の処分） — (Disposition of Revolving Mortgages) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-398-11 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-398-11 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-398-11 **第一項** 元本の確定前においては、根抵当権者は、第三百七十六条第一項の規定による根抵当権の処分をすることができない。ただし、その根抵当権を他の債権の担保とすることを妨げない。 art-398-11/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-398-11/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-398-11/par-1 Before the principal is fixed, a revolving mortgagee may not dispose of a revolving mortgage under the provisions of Article 376, paragraph (1); provided, however, that the revolving mortgagee is not precluded from applying that revolving mortgage to secure other claims. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 第三百七十七条第二項の規定は、前項ただし書の場合において元本の確定前にした弁済については、適用しない。 art-398-11/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-398-11/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-398-11/par-2 The provisions of Article 377, paragraph (2) do not apply to payments made before the principal is fixed in the cases provided for in the proviso to the preceding paragraph. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-398-11/par-1: 第三百七十六条第一項 → 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 - art-398-11/par-2: 第三百七十七条第二項 → 民法 第三百七十七条第二項 (Article 377, paragraph (2)), art-377/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-377/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-377/par-2 - art-398-11/par-2: 前項 → 民法 第三百九十八条の十一第一項 (Article 398-11, paragraph (1)), art-398-11/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-398-11/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-398-11/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 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