# 民事執行法 / Civil Enforcement Act — 第百六十一条 (Article 161) - 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: 第百六十一条 (Article 161)（譲渡命令等） — address `art-161` - Text in force since: 2026-05-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-161 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-161 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第百六十一条（譲渡命令等） — (Transfer Order) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-161 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-161 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-161 **第一項** 差し押さえられた債権が、条件付若しくは期限付であるとき、又は反対給付に係ることその他の事由によりその取立てが困難であるときは、執行裁判所は、差押債権者の申立てにより、その債権を執行裁判所が定めた価額で支払に代えて差押債権者に譲渡する命令（以下「譲渡命令」という。）、取立てに代えて、執行裁判所の定める方法によりその債権の売却を執行官に命ずる命令（以下「売却命令」という。）又は管理人を選任してその債権の管理を命ずる命令（以下「管理命令」という。）その他相当な方法による換価を命ずる命令（第百六十七条の十第一項において「譲渡命令等」と総称する。）を発することができる。 art-161/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-161/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-161/par-1 When a seized claim is one subject to a condition or one with a due date, or when it is difficult to collect the claim since it relates to counter-performance or due to any other grounds, the enforcement court may, upon petition by the attaching obligee, issue an order to transfer the claim to the attaching obligee at the price specified by the enforcement court in lieu of payment (referred to as a "transfer order" below), issue an order that orders a court enforcement officer to sell the claim by the method specified by the enforcement court in lieu of collection (referred to as a "sale order" below), issue an order to appoint an administrator and order the administrator to conduct administration of the claim (referred to as an "administration order" below), or issue any other order that orders a realization through a reasonable method (collectively referred to in Article 167-10, paragraph (1) as a "transfer order, etc."). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 執行裁判所は、前項の規定による決定をする場合には、債務者を審尋しなければならない。ただし、債務者が外国にあるとき、又はその住所が知れないときは、この限りでない。 art-161/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-161/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-161/par-2 An enforcement court must, in the case of issuing an order under the preceding paragraph, interrogate the obligor; provided, however, that this does not apply when the obligor is in a foreign state or the domicile of the obligor is unknown. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 第一項の申立てについての決定に対しては、執行抗告をすることができる。 art-161/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-161/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-161/par-3 An appeal may be filed against an order on the petition referred to in paragraph (1). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第四項** 第一項の規定による決定は、確定しなければその効力を生じない。 art-161/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-161/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-161/par-4 An order under paragraph (1) is not effective until it becomes final and binding. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第五項** 差し押さえられた債権が第百五十二条第一項各号に掲げる債権又は同条第二項に規定する債権である場合（差押債権者の債権に第百五十一条の二第一項各号に掲げる義務に係る金銭債権が含まれているときを除く。）における前項の規定の適用については、同項中「確定しなければ」とあるのは、「確定し、かつ、債務者に対して差押命令が送達された日から四週間を経過するまでは、」とする。 art-161/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-161/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-161/par-5 If the seized claim is a claim stated in the items of Article 152, paragraph (1) or a claim under paragraph (2) of that Article (excluding cases where a monetary claim related to the obligations stated in the items of Article 151-2, paragraph (1) is included in claims of the attaching obligee), the phrase "unless it becomes final and binding" in the preceding paragraph is deemed to be replaced with "until it becomes final and binding, and four weeks have passed from the date when the order of seizure is served to an obligor". Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "If the seized claim is a claim stated in the items of Article 152, paragraph (1) or a claim under paragraph (2) of that Article (excluding cases where a monetary claim related to the obligations stated in the items of Article 151-2, paragraph (1) is included in claims of the attaching obligee), the phrase "unless it becomes final and binding" in that paragraph is deemed to be replaced with "until it becomes final and binding, and four weeks have passed from the date when the order of seizure is served to an obligor"." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4900/tb **第六項** 執行官は、差し押さえられた債権を売却したときは、債務者に代わり、第三債務者に対し、確定日付のある証書によりその譲渡の通知をしなければならない。 art-161/par-6 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-161/par-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-161/par-6 When a court enforcement officer has sold a seized claim, the officer must, in lieu of the obligor, notify the third party obligor of the transfer of the claim by delivering an instrument bearing a certified date. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第七項** 第百五十九条第二項及び第三項並びに前条の規定は譲渡命令について、第百五十九条第七項の規定は譲渡命令に対する執行抗告について、第六十五条及び第六十八条の規定は売却命令に基づく執行官の売却について、第百五十九条第二項の規定は管理命令について、第八十四条第三項及び第四項、第八十八条、第九十四条第二項、第九十五条第一項、第三項及び第四項、第九十八条から第百四条まで並びに第百六条から第百十条までの規定は管理命令に基づく管理について、それぞれ準用する。この場合において、第八十四条第三項及び第四項中「代金の納付後」とあるのは、「第百六十一条第七項において準用する第百七条第一項の期間の経過後」と読み替えるものとする。 art-161/par-7 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-161/par-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-161/par-7 The provisions of Article 159, paragraphs (2) and (3) and the preceding Article apply mutatis mutandis to a transfer order, the provisions of Article 159, paragraph (7) apply mutatis mutandis to an appeal against an enforcement decision filed against a transfer order, the provisions of Article 65 and Article 68 apply mutatis mutandis to a sale by a court enforcement officer based on a sale order, the provisions of Article 159, paragraph (2) apply mutatis mutandis to an administration order, and the provisions of Article 84, paragraphs (3) and (4), Article 88, Article 94, paragraph (2), Article 95, paragraphs (1), (3) and (4), Articles 98 through 104 and Articles 106 through 110 apply mutatis mutandis to administration based on an administration order, respectively. In this case, the phrase "after the payment of the sales price" in Article 84, paragraphs (3) and (4) is deemed to be replaced with "after the passage of the period referred to in Article 107, paragraph (1) as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 161, paragraph (7)". machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-161/par-1: 第百六十七条の十第一項 → 民事執行法 第百六十七条の十第一項 (Article 167-10, paragraph (1)), art-167-10/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-167-10/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-167-10/par-1 - art-161/par-2: 前項 → 民事執行法 第百六十一条第一項 (Article 161, paragraph (1)), art-161/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-161/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-161/par-1 - art-161/par-3: 第一項 → 民事執行法 第百六十一条第一項 (Article 161, paragraph (1)), art-161/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-161/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-161/par-1 - art-161/par-4: 第一項 → 民事執行法 第百六十一条第一項 (Article 161, paragraph (1)), art-161/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-161/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-161/par-1 - art-161/par-5: 第百五十二条第一項 → 民事執行法 第百五十二条第一項 (Article 152, paragraph (1)), art-152/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-152/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-152/par-1 - art-161/par-5: 同条第二項 → 民事執行法 第百五十二条第二項 (Article 152, paragraph (2)), art-152/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-152/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-152/par-2 - art-161/par-5: 第百五十一条の二第一項 → 民事執行法 第百五十一条の二第一項 (Article 151-2, paragraph (1)), art-151-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-151-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-151-2/par-1 - art-161/par-5: 前項 → 民事執行法 第百六十一条第四項 (Article 161, paragraph (4)), art-161/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-161/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-161/par-4 - art-161/par-7: 第百五十九条第二項 → 民事執行法 第百五十九条第二項 (Article 159, paragraph (2)), art-159/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-159/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-159/par-2 - art-161/par-7: 第三項 → 民事執行法 第百五十九条第三項 (Article 159, paragraph (3)), art-159/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-159/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-159/par-3 - art-161/par-7: 前条 → 民事執行法 第百六十条 (Article 160), art-160 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-160 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-160 - art-161/par-7: 第百五十九条第七項 → 民事執行法 第百五十九条第七項 (Article 159, paragraph (7)), art-159/par-7 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-159/par-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-159/par-7 - art-161/par-7: 第六十五条 → 民事執行法 第六十五条 (Article 65), art-65 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-65 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-65 - art-161/par-7: 第六十八条 → 民事執行法 第六十八条 (Article 68), art-68 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-68 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-68 - art-161/par-7: 第八十四条第三項 → 民事執行法 第八十四条第三項 (Article 84, paragraph (3)), art-84/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-84/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-84/par-3 - art-161/par-7: 第四項 → 民事執行法 第八十四条第四項 (Article 84, paragraph (4)), art-84/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-84/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-84/par-4 - art-161/par-7: 第八十八条 → 民事執行法 第八十八条 (Article 88), art-88 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-88 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-88 - art-161/par-7: 第九十四条第二項 → 民事執行法 第九十四条第二項 (Article 94, paragraph (2)), art-94/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-94/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-94/par-2 - art-161/par-7: 第九十五条第一項 → 民事執行法 第九十五条第一項 (Article 95, paragraph (1)), art-95/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-95/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-95/par-1 - art-161/par-7: 第三項 → 民事執行法 第九十五条第三項 (Article 95, paragraph (3)), art-95/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-95/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-95/par-3 - art-161/par-7: 第四項 → 民事執行法 第九十五条第四項 (Article 95, paragraph (4)), art-95/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-95/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-95/par-4 - art-161/par-7: 第九十八条から第百四条まで → 民事執行法 第百条 (Article 100), art-100 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-100 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-100 - art-161/par-7: 第九十八条から第百四条まで → 民事執行法 第百一条 (Article 101), art-101 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-101 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-101 - art-161/par-7: 第九十八条から第百四条まで → 民事執行法 第百二条 (Article 102), art-102 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-102 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-102 - art-161/par-7: 第九十八条から第百四条まで → 民事執行法 第百三条 (Article 103), art-103 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-103 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-103 - art-161/par-7: 第九十八条から第百四条まで → 民事執行法 第百四条 (Article 104), art-104 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-104 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-104 - art-161/par-7: 第九十八条から第百四条まで → 民事執行法 第九十八条 (Article 98), art-98 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-98 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-98 - art-161/par-7: 第九十八条から第百四条まで → 民事執行法 第九十九条 (Article 99), art-99 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-99 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-99 - art-161/par-7: 第百六条から第百十条まで → 民事執行法 第百六条 (Article 106), art-106 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-106 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-106 - art-161/par-7: 第百六条から第百十条まで → 民事執行法 第百七条 (Article 107), art-107 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-107 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-107 - art-161/par-7: 第百六条から第百十条まで → 民事執行法 第百八条 (Article 108), art-108 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-108 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-108 - art-161/par-7: 第百六条から第百十条まで → 民事執行法 第百九条 (Article 109), art-109 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-109 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-109 - art-161/par-7: 第百六条から第百十条まで → 民事執行法 第百十条 (Article 110), art-110 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-110 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-110 - art-161/par-7: 第百六十一条第七項 → 民事執行法 第百六十一条第七項 (Article 161, paragraph (7)), art-161/par-7 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-161/par-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-161/par-7 - art-161/par-7: 第百七条第一項 → 民事執行法 第百七条第一項 (Article 107, paragraph (1)), art-107/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-107/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-107/par-1 ## Cited by 8 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民事執行法 第百六十一条第二項（譲渡命令等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-161/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-161/par-2 - 民事執行法 第百六十一条第三項（譲渡命令等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-161/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-161/par-3 - 民事執行法 第百六十一条第四項（譲渡命令等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-161/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-161/par-4 - 民事執行法 第百六十一条第五項（譲渡命令等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-161/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-161/par-5 - 民事執行法 第百六十一条第七項（譲渡命令等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-161/par-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-161/par-7 - 民事執行法 第百六十六条第一項（配当等の実施） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-166/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-166/par-1 - 民事執行法 第百六十七条の十一第五項（配当等のための移行等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-167-11/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-167-11/par-5 - 民事執行法 附則第三条第三項（差押債権者の金銭債権の取立て等に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/suppl-5011-2/art-3/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/suppl-5011-2/art-3/par-3 --- ## Sources - claude-opus-5-5 — Corrections to the Ministry of Justice's English of paragraphs, written 2026-10-19 - 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 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Civil Enforcement Act (民事執行法), Article 161, paragraph (5) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4900/tb), retrieved 2026-10-19 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch civil-enforcement-act-20261019T093630-004, 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