# 民法 / Civil Code — 第五百二十条の十八 (Article 520-18) - 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: 第五百二十条の十八 (Article 520-18)（指図証券の規定の準用） — address `art-520-18` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-520-18 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-520-18 - 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. --- ### 第五百二十条の十八（指図証券の規定の準用） — (Application Mutatis Mutandis of Provisions on Negotiable Instruments Payable to Order) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-520-18 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-520-18 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-520-18 **第一項** 第五百二十条の八から第五百二十条の十二までの規定は、記名式所持人払証券について準用する。 art-520-18/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-520-18/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-520-18/par-1 The provisions of Articles 520-8 through 520-12 apply mutatis mutandis to registered negotiable instruments payable to holder. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-520-18/par-1: 第五百二十条の八から第五百二十条の十二まで → 民法 第五百二十条の十 (Article 520-10), art-520-10 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-520-10 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-520-10 - art-520-18/par-1: 第五百二十条の八から第五百二十条の十二まで → 民法 第五百二十条の十一 (Article 520-11), art-520-11 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-520-11 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-520-11 - art-520-18/par-1: 第五百二十条の八から第五百二十条の十二まで → 民法 第五百二十条の十二 (Article 520-12), art-520-12 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-520-12 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-520-12 - art-520-18/par-1: 第五百二十条の八から第五百二十条の十二まで → 民法 第五百二十条の八 (Article 520-8), art-520-8 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-520-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-520-8 - art-520-18/par-1: 第五百二十条の八から第五百二十条の十二まで → 民法 第五百二十条の九 (Article 520-9), art-520-9 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-520-9 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-520-9 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 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