# 民事執行法 / Civil Enforcement Act — 第百四十六条 (Article 146) - 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: 第百四十六条 (Article 146)（差押えの範囲） — address `art-146` - Text in force since: 2026-05-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-146 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-146 - 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. --- ### 第百四十六条（差押えの範囲） — (Scope of Seizure) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-146 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-146 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-146 **第一項** 執行裁判所は、差し押さえるべき債権の全部について差押命令を発することができる。 art-146/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-146/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-146/par-1 An enforcement court may issue an order of seizure for the entirety of a claim to be seized. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 差し押さえた債権の価額が差押債権者の債権及び執行費用の額を超えるときは、執行裁判所は、他の債権を差し押さえてはならない。 art-146/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-146/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-146/par-2 When the price of the seized claim exceeds the amount of the claim and enforcement costs of the attaching obligee, an enforcement court must not seize any other claims. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民事執行法 第百六十七条の十四第一項（債権執行の規定の準用） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-167-14/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-167-14/par-1 - 民事執行法 第百九十三条第二項（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-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-193/par-2 --- ## 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