# 民事執行法 / Civil Enforcement Act — 第百六十三条 (Article 163) - 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: 第百六十三条 (Article 163)（動産の引渡請求権の差押命令の執行） — address `art-163` - Text in force since: 2026-05-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-163 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-163 - 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. --- ### 第百六十三条（動産の引渡請求権の差押命令の執行） — (Carrying Out an Order to Seize a Claim for Delivery of Movables) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-163 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-163 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-163 **第一項** 動産の引渡請求権を差し押さえた債権者は、債務者に対して差押命令が送達された日から一週間を経過したときは、第三債務者に対し、差押債権者の申立てを受けた執行官にその動産を引き渡すべきことを請求することができる。 art-163/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-163/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-163/par-1 An obligee who has had a claim for delivery of movables seized may, when one week has passed from the day on which an order of seizure is served upon the obligor, demand the third party obligor to deliver the movables to the court enforcement officer who has received a petition by the attaching obligee. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 執行官は、動産の引渡しを受けたときは、動産執行の売却の手続によりこれを売却し、その売得金を執行裁判所に提出しなければならない。 art-163/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-163/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-163/par-2 When a court enforcement officer has received delivery of movables, the officer sells the property through the procedure of sale in enforcement against movables, and must submit the proceeds of the sale to the enforcement court. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民事執行法 第百六十六条第一項第三号（配当等の実施） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-166/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-166/par-1/item-3 --- ## 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