# 民法 / Civil Code — 第九条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 9)

- 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
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- Provision: 第九条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 9)（同一の債権の担保として設定された旧根抵当権の分離） — address `suppl-3461-99/art-9`
- Text in force since: 2026-06-24
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### 第九条（同一の債権の担保として設定された旧根抵当権の分離） — Separation of Former Revolving Mortgages Created to Secure the Same Claim
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>suppl-3461-99/art-9 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/suppl-3461-99/art-9 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-3461-99/art-9</sup>

**第一項**  同一の債権の担保として設定された数個の不動産の上の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、当該旧根抵当権を一の不動産について他の不動産から分離し、これらの不動産の間に、新法第三百九十二条の規定の適用がないものとすることができる。ただし、後順位の抵当権者その他の利害の関係を有する者の承諾がないときは、この限りでない。
<sup>suppl-3461-99/art-9/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/suppl-3461-99/art-9/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-3461-99/art-9/par-1</sup>
With respect to a former revolving mortgage on several immovable properties created to secure the same claim, only before the principal is fixed, by agreement between the revolving mortgagee and the mortgagor of the revolving mortgage, that former revolving mortgage may be separated as to one immovable property from the other immovable properties, and the provisions of Article 392 of the New Act may be made not to apply between those immovable properties; provided, however, that this does not apply if the approval of subordinated mortgagees and other persons having an interest has not been obtained.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

**第二項**  前項の規定による分離は、新法第三百九十八条の十六の規定の適用に関しては、根抵当権の設定とみなす。
<sup>suppl-3461-99/art-9/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/suppl-3461-99/art-9/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-3461-99/art-9/par-2</sup>
A separation under the preceding paragraph is deemed to be the creation of a revolving mortgage with respect to the application of the provisions of Article 398-16 of the New Act.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- suppl-3461-99/art-9/par-1: 新法第三百九十二条 → 民法 第三百九十二条 (Article 392), art-392 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-392 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-392
- suppl-3461-99/art-9/par-2: 前項 → 民法 附則第九条第一項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 9, paragraph (1)), suppl-3461-99/art-9/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/suppl-3461-99/art-9/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-3461-99/art-9/par-1
- suppl-3461-99/art-9/par-2: 新法第三百九十八条の十六 → 民法 第三百九十八条の十六 (Article 398-16), art-398-16 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-398-16 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-398-16

## Cited by

1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 民法 附則第九条第二項（同一の債権の担保として設定された旧根抵当権の分離） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/suppl-3461-99/art-9/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-3461-99/art-9/par-2

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## 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-20261011T170941-014, translated 2026-10-12
- This site's parser, version 190 — 民法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-11
