# 民事執行法 / Civil Enforcement Act — 第百四十三条 (Article 143) - 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: 第百四十三条 (Article 143)（債権執行の開始） — address `art-143` - Text in force since: 2026-05-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-143 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-143 - 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. --- ### 第百四十三条（債権執行の開始） — (Commencement of Enforcement Against Claims) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-143 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-143 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-143 **第一項** 金銭の支払又は船舶若しくは動産の引渡しを目的とする債権（動産執行の目的となる有価証券が発行されている債権を除く。以下この節において「債権」という。）に対する強制執行（第百六十七条の二第二項に規定する少額訴訟債権執行を除く。以下この節において「債権執行」という。）は、執行裁判所の差押命令により開始する。 art-143/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-143/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-143/par-1 Enforcement against a claim for the payment of money or delivery of a vessel or movables (excluding a claim for which securities subject to enforcement against movables have been issued; referred to as a "claim" in this Section) (this excludes the enforcement against a claim arising from a small claims action prescribed in Article 167-2, paragraph (2); referred to as "enforcement against a claim" in this Section) commences through an order of seizure by an enforcement court. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-143/par-1: 第百六十七条の二第二項 → 民事執行法 第百六十七条の二第二項 (Article 167-2, paragraph (2)), art-167-2/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-167-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-167-2/par-2 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民事執行法 第九十三条の四第三項（給付請求権に対する競合する債権差押命令等の効力の停止等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-93-4/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-93-4/par-3 - 民事執行法 第百九十三条第一項（債権及びその他の財産権についての担保権の実行の要件等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-193/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-193/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