# 民法 / Civil Code — 第五百二十条の十九 (Article 520-19) - 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: 第五百二十条の十九 (Article 520-19) — address `art-520-19` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-520-19 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-520-19 - 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. --- ### 第五百二十条の十九 art-520-19 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-520-19 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-520-19 **第一項** 債権者を指名する記載がされている証券であって指図証券及び記名式所持人払証券以外のものは、債権の譲渡又はこれを目的とする質権の設定に関する方式に従い、かつ、その効力をもってのみ、譲渡し、又は質権の目的とすることができる。 art-520-19/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-520-19/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-520-19/par-1 Negotiable instruments on which the name of the obligee is written, other than negotiable instruments payable to order and registered negotiable instruments payable to holder, may be assigned or made the subject of a pledge only in compliance with the formalities concerning the assignment of claims or the creation of a pledge for this purpose, and only with the effect of the assignment or the creation. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 第五百二十条の十一及び第五百二十条の十二の規定は、前項の証券について準用する。 art-520-19/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-520-19/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-520-19/par-2 The provisions of Articles 520-11 and 520-12 apply mutatis mutandis to the negotiable instruments referred to in the preceding paragraph. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-520-19/par-2: 第五百二十条の十一 → 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-520-19/par-2: 第五百二十条の十二 → 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-520-19/par-2: 前項 → 民法 第五百二十条の十九第一項 (Article 520-19, paragraph (1)), art-520-19/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-520-19/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-520-19/par-1 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 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