# 民法 / Civil Code — 第五条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 5) - 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: 第五条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 5)（附記によらない極度額の増額の登記がある旧根抵当権の分割） — address `suppl-3461-99/art-5` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/suppl-3461-99/art-5 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-3461-99/art-5 - 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. --- ### 第五条（附記によらない極度額の増額の登記がある旧根抵当権の分割） — Division of a Former Revolving Mortgage for Which Registration of an Increase of the Maximum Amount Has Been Made Otherwise Than by Annotation caption: machine translation, not official suppl-3461-99/art-5 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/suppl-3461-99/art-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-3461-99/art-5 **第一項** 附記によらない極度額の増額の登記がある旧根抵当権については、元本の確定前に限り、根抵当権者及び根抵当権設定者の合意により、当該旧根抵当権を分割して増額に係る部分を新法の規定による独立の根抵当権とすることができる。この場合においては、旧根抵当権を目的とする権利は、当該増額に係る部分について消滅する。 suppl-3461-99/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/suppl-3461-99/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-3461-99/art-5/par-1 With regard to a former revolving mortgage for which registration of an increase of the maximum amount has been made otherwise than by annotation, only before the principal is fixed, by agreement between the revolving mortgagee and the mortgagor of the revolving mortgage, the former revolving mortgage may be divided and the portion pertaining to the increase may be made an independent revolving mortgage under the provisions of the New Act. In this case, rights whose object is the former revolving mortgage are extinguished with respect to the portion pertaining to the increase. machine translation, not official **第二項** 前項の規定による分割をする場合には、増額に係る部分を目的とする権利を有する者その他の利害の関係を有する者の承諾を得なければならない。 suppl-3461-99/art-5/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/suppl-3461-99/art-5/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-3461-99/art-5/par-2 When a division under the preceding paragraph is effected, the approval of the persons holding rights whose object is the portion pertaining to the increase and of other persons having an interest must be obtained. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-3461-99/art-5/par-2: 前項 → 民法 附則第五条第一項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 5, paragraph (1)), suppl-3461-99/art-5/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/suppl-3461-99/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-3461-99/art-5/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 附則第五条第二項（附記によらない極度額の増額の登記がある旧根抵当権の分割） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/suppl-3461-99/art-5/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-3461-99/art-5/par-2 --- ## 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 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch civil-code-20261011T170941-013, translated 2026-10-12 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch civil-code-20261011T170941-014, translated 2026-10-12 - This site's parser, version 190 — 民法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-11