# 民事執行法 / Civil Enforcement Act — 第七十一条 (Article 71) - 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: 第七十一条 (Article 71)（売却不許可事由） — address `art-71` - Text in force since: 2026-05-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-71 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-71 - 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. --- ### 第七十一条（売却不許可事由） — (Grounds for Not Permitting a Sale) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-71 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-71 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-71 **第一項** 執行裁判所は、次に掲げる事由があると認めるときは、売却不許可決定をしなければならない。 art-71/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-71/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-71/par-1 If an enforcement court finds there to be any of the following grounds, it must rule not to permit the sale: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 強制競売の手続の開始又は続行をすべきでないこと。 art-71/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-71/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-71/par-1/item-1 the proceedings for the compulsory auction should not be commenced or continued; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 最高価買受申出人が不動産を買い受ける資格若しくは能力を有しないこと又はその代理人がその権限を有しないこと。 art-71/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-71/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-71/par-1/item-2 the highest bidder lacks the qualification or capacity to purchase the immovable property or their agent lacks the authority to act as agent; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **三** 最高価買受申出人が不動産を買い受ける資格を有しない者の計算において買受けの申出をした者であること。 art-71/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-71/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-71/par-1/item-3 the highest bidder is a person who has made a purchase offer on the account of a person who is not eligible to purchase the immovable property; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **四** 最高価買受申出人、その代理人又は自己の計算において最高価買受申出人に買受けの申出をさせた者が次のいずれかに該当すること。 art-71/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-71/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-71/par-1/item-4 the highest bidder, their agent or the person who, on their own account, had the highest bidder make a purchase offer falls under any of the following categories: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **イ** その強制競売の手続において第六十五条第一号に規定する行為をした者 art-71/par-1/item-4/sub-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-71/par-1/item-4/sub-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-71/par-1/item-4/sub-1 a person who has engaged in the act prescribed in Article 65, item (i) in the proceedings for the compulsory auction; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **ロ** その強制競売の手続において、代金の納付をしなかつた者又は自己の計算においてその者に買受けの申出をさせたことがある者 art-71/par-1/item-4/sub-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-71/par-1/item-4/sub-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-71/par-1/item-4/sub-2 a person who has failed to pay the price or a person who has, on their own account, had the relevant person make a purchase offer in the proceedings for the compulsory auction; Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "a person who has failed to pay the fee or a person who has, on their own account, had the relevant person make a purchase offer in the proceedings for the compulsory auction;" — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4900/tb **ハ** 第六十五条第二号又は第三号に掲げる者 art-71/par-1/item-4/sub-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-71/par-1/item-4/sub-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-71/par-1/item-4/sub-3 the person stated in Article 65, item (ii) or (iii); Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **五** 最高価買受申出人又は自己の計算において最高価買受申出人に買受けの申出をさせた者が次のいずれかに該当すること。 art-71/par-1/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-71/par-1/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-71/par-1/item-5 the highest bidder or a person who makes the highest bidder make the purchase offer on their own account falls under any of the following items: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **イ** 暴力団員等（買受けの申出がされた時に暴力団員等であつた者を含む。） art-71/par-1/item-5/sub-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-71/par-1/item-5/sub-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-71/par-1/item-5/sub-1 a current or former member of an organized crime group (including a person who is a current or former member of an organized crime group when the purchase offer is made); Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **ロ** 法人でその役員のうちに暴力団員等に該当する者があるもの（買受けの申出がされた時にその役員のうちに暴力団員等に該当する者があつたものを含む。） art-71/par-1/item-5/sub-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-71/par-1/item-5/sub-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-71/par-1/item-5/sub-2 a corporation which has a person who falls under a current or former member of an organized crime group as its officer (including a corporation which had a person who falls under a current or former member of an organized crime group as its officer when the purchase offer is made); Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **六** 第七十五条第一項の規定による売却の不許可の申出があること。 art-71/par-1/item-6 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-71/par-1/item-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-71/par-1/item-6 there is a petition not to permit the sale under Article 75, paragraph (1); Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **七** 売却基準価額若しくは一括売却の決定、物件明細書の作成又はこれらの手続に重大な誤りがあること。 art-71/par-1/item-7 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-71/par-1/item-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-71/par-1/item-7 there is a serious error in the determination of the standard sales price or of a package sale, in the preparation of the description of property, or in the procedures for those; machine translation, not official **八** 売却の手続に重大な誤りがあること。 art-71/par-1/item-8 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-71/par-1/item-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-71/par-1/item-8 there is a serious error in the procedure of sale. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-71/par-1/item-4/sub-1: 第六十五条第一号 → 民事執行法 第六十五条第一項第一号 (Article 65, paragraph (1), item (i)), art-65/par-1/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-65/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-65/par-1/item-1 - art-71/par-1/item-4/sub-3: 第六十五条第二号 → 民事執行法 第六十五条第一項第二号 (Article 65, paragraph (1), item (ii)), art-65/par-1/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-65/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-65/par-1/item-2 - art-71/par-1/item-4/sub-3: 第三号 → 民事執行法 第六十五条第一項第三号 (Article 65, paragraph (1), item (iii)), art-65/par-1/item-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-65/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-65/par-1/item-3 - art-71/par-1/item-6: 第七十五条第一項 → 民事執行法 第七十五条第一項 (Article 75, paragraph (1)), art-75/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-75/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-75/par-1 ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民事執行法 第七十条第一項（売却の許可又は不許可に関する意見の陳述） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-70/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-70/par-1 - 民事執行法 第七十四条第二項（売却の許可又は不許可の決定に対する執行抗告） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-74/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-74/par-2 - 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 - 民事執行法 附則第二条第二項（売却の手続に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/suppl-5011-2/art-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/suppl-5011-2/art-2/par-2 --- ## 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 71, paragraph (1), item (iv), (b) — 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-20261019T093630-002, 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