# 割賦販売法 / Installment Sales Act — 第七条 (Article 7)

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- Law: 割賦販売法 (Installment Sales Act), 昭和三十六年法律第百五十九号
- English title "Installment Sales 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: 第七条 (Article 7)（所有権に関する推定） — address `art-7`
- Text in force since: 2025-06-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-7
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-7
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### 第七条（所有権に関する推定） — (Presumption of Ownership)
<sup>caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>
<sup>art-7 · https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-7</sup>

  **第一項**  第二条第一項第一号に規定する割賦販売の方法により販売された指定商品（耐久性を有するものとして政令で定めるものに限る。）の所有権は、賦払金の全部の支払の義務が履行される時までは、割賦販売業者に留保されたものと推定する。
  <sup>art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-7/par-1</sup>
  The ownership of designated goods sold in a way that involves an installment sale as prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (1) item (i) (limited to those specified by Cabinet Order as durable) is presumed to be retained by the installment seller until the obligation to pay the installments in full is performed.
  <sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

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## Cites
- art-7/par-1: 第二条第一項第一号 → 割賦販売法 第二条第一項第一号 (Article 2, paragraph (1), item (i)), art-2/par-1/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-2/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-2/par-1/item-1

## Cited by

1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 割賦販売法 第三十六条第一項（消費経済審議会及び消費者委員会への諮問） — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-36/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-36/par-1

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## Sources

- e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 割賦販売法 — the text in force from 2025-06-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/336AC0000000159/20250601_504AC0000000068), retrieved 2026-11-02
- Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Installment Sales Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4837/tb), retrieved 2026-11-02
- This site's parser, version 220 — 割賦販売法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-02