# 民事執行法 / Civil Enforcement Act — 第五十一条 (Article 51) - 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: 第五十一条 (Article 51)（配当要求） — address `art-51` - Text in force since: 2026-05-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-51 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-51 - 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. --- ### 第五十一条（配当要求） — (Distribution Demand) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-51 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-51 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-51 **第一項** 第二十五条の規定により強制執行を実施することができる債務名義の正本（以下「執行力のある債務名義の正本」という。）を有する債権者、強制競売の開始決定に係る差押えの登記後に登記された仮差押債権者及び第百八十一条第一項各号に掲げる文書により一般の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-51/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-51/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-51/par-1 An obligee that has an authenticated copy of a title of obligation based on which judicial enforcement may be implemented pursuant to the provisions of Article 25 (referred to as an "authenticated copy of an enforceable title of obligation" below), an obligee effecting a provisional seizure that was registered after the registration of the seizure resulting from an order commencing compulsory auction proceedings, and an obligee who has proved that the obligee has a general statutory lien by any of the documents stated in the items of Article 181, paragraph (1) may demand distribution. machine translation, not official **第二項** 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-51/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-51/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-51/par-2 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-51/par-1: 第二十五条 → 民事執行法 第二十五条 (Article 25), art-25 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-25 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-25 - art-51/par-1: 第百八十一条第一項 → 民事執行法 第百八十一条第一項 (Article 181, paragraph (1)), art-181/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-181/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-181/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民事執行法 第百二十一条第一項（不動産に対する強制競売の規定の準用） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-121/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-121/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 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch civil-enforcement-act-20261019T093630-002, 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