# 民事執行法 / Civil Enforcement Act — 第百七十条 (Article 170) - 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: 第百七十条 (Article 170)（目的物を第三者が占有する場合の引渡しの強制執行） — address `art-170` - Text in force since: 2026-05-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-170 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-170 - 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. --- ### 第百七十条（目的物を第三者が占有する場合の引渡しの強制執行） — (Judicial Enforcement of Delivery If a Third Party Possesses the Subject Matter) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-170 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-170 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-170 **第一項** 第三者が強制執行の目的物を占有している場合においてその物を債務者に引き渡すべき義務を負つているときは、物の引渡しの強制執行は、執行裁判所が、債務者の第三者に対する引渡請求権を差し押さえ、請求権の行使を債権者に許す旨の命令を発する方法により行う。 art-170/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-170/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-170/par-1 If a third party possesses the subject matter of judicial enforcement, if the third party is liable to deliver the object to the obligor, judicial enforcement of delivery of the object is carried out by the method in which the enforcement court seizes the obligor's claim for delivery against the third party and issues an order permitting the obligee to exercise the claim. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 第百四十四条、第百四十五条（第四項を除く。）、第百四十七条、第百四十八条、第百五十五条第一項及び第三項並びに第百五十八条の規定は、前項の強制執行について準用する。 art-170/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-170/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-170/par-2 The provisions of Article 144, Article 145 (excluding paragraph (4)), Article 147, Article 148, Article 155, paragraphs (1) and (3) and Article 158 apply mutatis mutandis to the judicial enforcement referred to in the preceding paragraph. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-170/par-2: 第百四十四条 → 民事執行法 第百四十四条 (Article 144), art-144 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-144 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-144 - art-170/par-2: 第百四十五条 → 民事執行法 第百四十五条 (Article 145), art-145 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-145 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-145 - art-170/par-2: 第四項 → 民事執行法 第百四十五条第四項 (Article 145, paragraph (4)), art-145/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-145/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-145/par-4 - art-170/par-2: 第百四十七条 → 民事執行法 第百四十七条 (Article 147), art-147 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-147 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-147 - art-170/par-2: 第百四十八条 → 民事執行法 第百四十八条 (Article 148), art-148 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-148 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-148 - art-170/par-2: 第百五十五条第一項 → 民事執行法 第百五十五条第一項 (Article 155, paragraph (1)), art-155/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-155/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-155/par-1 - art-170/par-2: 第三項 → 民事執行法 第百五十五条第三項 (Article 155, paragraph (3)), art-155/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-155/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-155/par-3 - art-170/par-2: 第百五十八条 → 民事執行法 第百五十八条 (Article 158), art-158 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-158 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-158 - art-170/par-2: 前項 → 民事執行法 第百七十条第一項 (Article 170, paragraph (1)), art-170/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-170/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-170/par-1 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民事執行法 第百七十条第二項（目的物を第三者が占有する場合の引渡しの強制執行） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-170/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-170/par-2 - 民事執行法 第百七十三条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-173/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-173/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