# 民事執行法 / Civil Enforcement Act — 第百五十四条 (Article 154) - 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: 第百五十四条 (Article 154)（配当要求） — address `art-154` - Text in force since: 2026-05-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-154 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-154 - 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. --- ### 第百五十四条（配当要求） — (Distribution Demand) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-154 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-154 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-154 **第一項** 執行力のある債務名義の正本を有する債権者及び文書により先取特権を有することを証明した債権者は、配当要求をすることができる。 art-154/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-154/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-154/par-1 An obligee having an authenticated copy of an enforceable title of obligation and an obligee who has proved by a document that the obligee has a statutory lien may make a distribution demand. machine translation, not official **第二項** 前項の配当要求があつたときは、その旨を記載した文書は、第三債務者に送達しなければならない。 art-154/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-154/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-154/par-2 When the distribution demand referred to in the preceding paragraph has been made, a document stating that fact must be served on the third party obligor. machine translation, not official **第三項** 配当要求を却下する裁判に対しては、執行抗告をすることができる。 art-154/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-154/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-154/par-3 An appeal may be filed against a judicial decision to deny a distribution demand. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-154/par-2: 前項 → 民事執行法 第百五十四条第一項 (Article 154, paragraph (1)), art-154/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-154/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-154/par-1 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民事執行法 第百五十四条第二項（配当要求） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-154/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-154/par-2 - 民事執行法 第百六十七条の九第二項（配当要求） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-167-9/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-167-9/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 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch civil-enforcement-act-20261019T093630-003, translated 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