# 民事執行法 / Civil Enforcement Act — 第百二十八条 (Article 128) - Law: 民事執行法 (Civil Enforcement Act), 昭和五十四年法律第四号 - English title "Civil Enforcement Act": 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: 第百二十八条 (Article 128)（超過差押えの禁止等） — address `art-128` - Text in force since: 2026-05-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-128 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-128 - 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. --- ### 第百二十八条（超過差押えの禁止等） — (Prohibition of Excessive Seizure) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-128 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-128 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-128 **第一項** 動産の差押えは、差押債権者の債権及び執行費用の弁済に必要な限度を超えてはならない。 art-128/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-128/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-128/par-1 Movable property must not be seized beyond the extent necessary for the performance of the claim and enforcement costs of the attaching obligee. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 差押えの後にその差押えが前項の限度を超えることが明らかとなつたときは、執行官は、その超える限度において差押えを取り消さなければならない。 art-128/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-128/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-128/par-2 After a seizure, when it is clear that the seizure goes beyond the extent referred to in the preceding paragraph, a court enforcement officer must void the excessive portion of the seizure. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-128/par-2: 前項 → 民事執行法 第百二十八条第一項 (Article 128, paragraph (1)), art-128/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-128/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-128/par-1 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民事執行法 第百二十八条第二項（超過差押えの禁止等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-128/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-128/par-2 - 民事執行法 第百九十二条第一項（動産執行の規定の準用） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-192/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-192/par-1 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 民事執行法 — the text in force from 2026-05-21 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/354AC0000000004/20260521_505AC0000000053), retrieved 2026-10-19 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Civil Enforcement Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4900/tb), retrieved 2026-10-19 - This site's parser, version 204 — 民事執行法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-19