# 民法 / Civil Code — 第五百二十条の十六 (Article 520-16) - 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: 第五百二十条の十六 (Article 520-16)（記名式所持人払証券の譲渡における債務者の抗弁の制限） — address `art-520-16` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-520-16 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-520-16 - 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. --- ### 第五百二十条の十六（記名式所持人払証券の譲渡における債務者の抗弁の制限） — (Limitation on Defense of Obligor in Case of Assignment of Registered Negotiable Instrument Payable to Holder) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-520-16 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-520-16 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-520-16 **第一項** 記名式所持人払証券の債務者は、その証券に記載した事項及びその証券の性質から当然に生ずる結果を除き、その証券の譲渡前の債権者に対抗することができた事由をもって善意の譲受人に対抗することができない。 art-520-16/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-520-16/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-520-16/par-1 The obligor of a registered negotiable instrument payable to holder may not duly assert against an assignee in good faith any grounds which could have been duly asserted against the obligee before the assignment of the instrument, except for the particulars written on the instrument or any result which necessarily arises from the nature of the instrument. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 第五百二十条の十七第一項（記名式所持人払証券の質入れ） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-520-17/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-520-17/par-1 - 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