# 民法 / Civil Code — 第五百二十条の七 (Article 520-7) - 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: 第五百二十条の七 (Article 520-7)（指図証券の質入れ） — address `art-520-7` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-520-7 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-520-7 - 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. --- ### 第五百二十条の七（指図証券の質入れ） — (Pledge of Negotiable Instrument Payable to Order) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-520-7 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-520-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-520-7 **第一項** 第五百二十条の二から前条までの規定は、指図証券を目的とする質権の設定について準用する。 art-520-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-520-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-520-7/par-1 The provisions of Article 520-2 through the preceding Article apply mutatis mutandis to the creation of a pledge on a negotiable instrument payable to order. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-520-7/par-1: 第五百二十条の二から前条まで → 民法 第五百二十条の二 (Article 520-2), art-520-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-520-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-520-2 - art-520-7/par-1: 第五百二十条の二から前条まで → 民法 第五百二十条の三 (Article 520-3), art-520-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-520-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-520-3 - art-520-7/par-1: 第五百二十条の二から前条まで → 民法 第五百二十条の四 (Article 520-4), art-520-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-520-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-520-4 - art-520-7/par-1: 第五百二十条の二から前条まで → 民法 第五百二十条の五 (Article 520-5), art-520-5 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-520-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-520-5 - art-520-7/par-1: 第五百二十条の二から前条まで → 民法 第五百二十条の六 (Article 520-6), art-520-6 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-520-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-520-6 ## 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