# 民法 / Civil Code — 第四百九十六条 (Article 496) - 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: 第四百九十六条 (Article 496)（供託物の取戻し） — address `art-496` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-496 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-496 - 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. --- ### 第四百九十六条（供託物の取戻し） — (Recovery of Deposited Things) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-496 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-496 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-496 **第一項** 債権者が供託を受諾せず、又は供託を有効と宣告した判決が確定しない間は、弁済者は、供託物を取り戻すことができる。この場合においては、供託をしなかったものとみなす。 art-496/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-496/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-496/par-1 As long as the obligee does not accept the deposit, or the judgment which pronounces that the deposit is effective does not become final and binding, the performer may recover the deposited things. In that case, it is deemed that no deposit has been effected. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の規定は、供託によって質権又は抵当権が消滅した場合には、適用しない。 art-496/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-496/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-496/par-2 The provisions of the preceding paragraph do not apply in cases any pledge or mortgage has been extinguished due to the deposit. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-496/par-2: 前項 → 民法 第四百九十六条第一項 (Article 496, paragraph (1)), art-496/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-496/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-496/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 第四百九十六条第二項（供託物の取戻し） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-496/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-496/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