# 民法 / Civil Code — 第四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4) - 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: 第四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4)（滌除及び増価競売に関する経過措置） — address `suppl-4151-134/art-4` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/suppl-4151-134/art-4 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-4151-134/art-4 - 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. --- ### 第四条（滌除及び増価競売に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures Concerning Redemption and Auction for Increased Price caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4151-134/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/suppl-4151-134/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-4151-134/art-4 **第一項** 施行日前に旧民法第三百八十三条の書面が同条に規定する債権者の全員に到達した場合における当該抵当不動産についての旧民法第三百七十八条の規定による滌除及び旧民法第三百八十四条に規定する増価競売については、第一条の規定による改正後の民法及び第三条の規定による改正後の民事執行法の規定にかかわらず、なお従前の例による。 suppl-4151-134/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/suppl-4151-134/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-4151-134/art-4/par-1 In the case where the document referred to in Article 383 of the Former Civil Code reached all of the obligees prescribed in that Article before the Effective Date, with respect to redemption under Article 378 of the Former Civil Code and the auction for increased price prescribed in Article 384 of the Former Civil Code concerning the mortgaged immovables, the provisions then in force continue to govern, notwithstanding the provisions of the Civil Code as amended pursuant to the provisions of Article 1 and the Civil Enforcement Act as amended pursuant to the provisions of Article 3. machine translation, not official --- ## 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-20261011T170941-017, translated 2026-10-12 - This site's parser, version 190 — 民法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-11