# 民事執行法 / Civil Enforcement Act — 第百九十条 (Article 190)

- 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: 第百九十条 (Article 190)（動産競売の要件） — address `art-190`
- Text in force since: 2026-05-21
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-190
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### 第百九十条（動産競売の要件） — (Requirements for an Auction of Movables)
<sup>caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>
<sup>art-190 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-190 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-190</sup>

**第一項**  動産を目的とする担保権の実行としての競売（以下「動産競売」という。）は、次に掲げる場合に限り、開始する。
<sup>art-190/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-190/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-190/par-1</sup>
The auctioning of movables as a means of enforcing a security interest (referred to as an "auction of movables" below) is commenced only in any of the following cases:
<sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

  **一**  債権者が執行官に対し当該動産を提出した場合
  <sup>art-190/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-190/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-190/par-1/item-1</sup>
  cases where the obligee has submitted the movables to a court enforcement officer;
  <sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

  **二**  債権者が執行官に対し当該動産の占有者が差押えを承諾することを証する文書を提出した場合
  <sup>art-190/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-190/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-190/par-1/item-2</sup>
  cases where the obligee has submitted to a court enforcement officer a document proving that the possessor of the movables has consented to a seizure; or
  <sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

  **三**  債権者が執行官に対し次項の許可の決定書の謄本を提出し、かつ、第百九十二条において準用する第百二十三条第二項の規定による捜索に先立つて又はこれと同時に当該許可の決定が債務者に送達された場合
  <sup>art-190/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-190/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-190/par-1/item-3</sup>
  cases where the obligee has submitted a transcript of a written ruling for the permission referred to in the following paragraph to a court enforcement officer, and that ruling has been served on the obligor before or simultaneously with a search under Article 123, paragraph (2) as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 192.
  <sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

**第二項**  執行裁判所は、担保権の存在を証する文書を提出した債権者の申立てがあつたときは、当該担保権についての動産競売の開始を許可することができる。ただし、当該動産が第百二十三条第二項に規定する場所又は容器にない場合は、この限りでない。
<sup>art-190/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-190/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-190/par-2</sup>
An enforcement court may, upon petition by an obligee who has submitted a document proving the existence of a security interest, permit commencement of an auction of movables in connection with that security interest; provided, however, that this does not apply to cases where the movables do not exist at the place or in the container prescribed in Article 123, paragraph (2).
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

**第三項**  前項の許可の決定は、債務者に送達しなければならない。
<sup>art-190/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-190/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-190/par-3</sup>
An order of the permission referred to in the preceding paragraph must be served upon the obligor.
<sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

**第四項**  第二項の申立てについての裁判に対しては、執行抗告をすることができる。
<sup>art-190/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-190/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-190/par-4</sup>
An appeal may be filed against a judicial decision on the petition referred to in paragraph (2).
<sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

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## Cites
- art-190/par-1/item-3: 次項 → 民事執行法 第百九十条第二項 (Article 190, paragraph (2)), art-190/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-190/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-190/par-2
- art-190/par-1/item-3: 第百九十二条 → 民事執行法 第百九十二条 (Article 192), art-192 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-192 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-192
- art-190/par-1/item-3: 第百二十三条第二項 → 民事執行法 第百二十三条第二項 (Article 123, paragraph (2)), art-123/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-123/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-123/par-2
- art-190/par-2: 第百二十三条第二項 → 民事執行法 第百二十三条第二項 (Article 123, paragraph (2)), art-123/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-123/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-123/par-2
- art-190/par-3: 前項 → 民事執行法 第百九十条第二項 (Article 190, paragraph (2)), art-190/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-190/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-190/par-2
- art-190/par-4: 第二項 → 民事執行法 第百九十条第二項 (Article 190, paragraph (2)), art-190/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-190/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-190/par-2

## Cited by

4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 民事執行法 第百九十条第一項第三号（動産競売の要件） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-190/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-190/par-1/item-3
- 民事執行法 第百九十条第三項（動産競売の要件） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-190/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-190/par-3
- 民事執行法 第百九十条第四項（動産競売の要件） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-190/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-190/par-4
- 民事執行法 第百九十二条第一項（動産執行の規定の準用） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-192/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-192/par-1

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## 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-20261019T093630-005, 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
