# 民法 / Civil Code — 第五百二十条の十二 (Article 520-12) - 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: 第五百二十条の十二 (Article 520-12)（指図証券喪失の場合の権利行使方法） — address `art-520-12` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-520-12 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-520-12 - 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. --- ### 第五百二十条の十二（指図証券喪失の場合の権利行使方法） — (Method of Exercising Right in Case of Forfeiture of Negotiable Instrument Payable to Order) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-520-12 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-520-12 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-520-12 **第一項** 金銭その他の物又は有価証券の給付を目的とする指図証券の所持人がその指図証券を喪失した場合において、非訟事件手続法第百十四条に規定する公示催告の申立てをしたときは、その債務者に、その債務の目的物を供託させ、又は相当の担保を供してその指図証券の趣旨に従い履行をさせることができる。 art-520-12/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-520-12/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-520-12/par-1 If the holder of a negotiable instrument payable to order for the delivery of things such as money or of negotiable instruments of value loses the negotiable instrument payable to order, and files a petition for public notification prescribed in Article 114 of the Non-Contentious Case Procedures Act, the holder may have the obligor deposit the subject matter of the obligation or have the same perform the obligation in line with the purport of the negotiable instrument payable to order by providing reasonable security. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-520-12/par-1: 非訟事件手続法第百十四条 → e-Gov law 423AC0000000051, 第百十四条 (Article 114), art-114 — not held in this collection ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 第五百二十条の十八第一項（指図証券の規定の準用） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-520-18/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-520-18/par-1 - 民法 第五百二十条の十九第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-520-19/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-520-19/par-2 - 民法 附則第二十八条第一項（有価証券に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/suppl-4291-44/art-28/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-4291-44/art-28/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