# 民事執行法 / Civil Enforcement Act — 第七十九条 (Article 79)

- 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: 第七十九条 (Article 79)（不動産の取得の時期） — address `art-79`
- Text in force since: 2026-05-21
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-79
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-79
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### 第七十九条（不動産の取得の時期） — (Time of Acquisition of the Immovable Property)
<sup>caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>
<sup>art-79 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-79 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-79</sup>

      **第一項**  買受人は、代金を納付した時に不動産を取得する。
      <sup>art-79/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-79/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-79/par-1</sup>
      A purchaser acquires immovable property at the time of payment of the price.
      <sup>Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "A purchaser acquires immovable property at the time of payment of the fee." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4900/tb</sup>

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## 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 79, paragraph (1) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (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