# 破産法 / Bankruptcy Act — 第百六十一条 (Article 161) - Law: 破産法 (Bankruptcy Act), 平成十六年法律第七十五号 - English title "Bankruptcy 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: 第百六十一条 (Article 161)（相当の対価を得てした財産の処分行為の否認） — address `art-161` - Text in force since: 2026-05-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-161 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-161 - 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. --- ### 第百六十一条（相当の対価を得てした財産の処分行為の否認） — (Avoidance of Acts of Disposing of Property While Receiving Reasonable Consideration) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-161 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-161 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-161 **第一項** 破産者が、その有する財産を処分する行為をした場合において、その行為の相手方から相当の対価を取得しているときは、その行為は、次に掲げる要件のいずれにも該当する場合に限り、破産手続開始後、破産財団のために否認することができる。 art-161/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-161/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-161/par-1 When the bankrupt has received reasonable consideration from the other party to an act after conducting the act of disposing of property, the act may be avoided in the interest of the bankruptcy estate after the commencement of bankruptcy proceedings, only if it satisfies all of the following requirements: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 当該行為が、不動産の金銭への換価その他の当該処分による財産の種類の変更により、破産者において隠匿、無償の供与その他の破産債権者を害することとなる処分（以下「隠匿等の処分」という。）をするおそれを現に生じさせるものであること。 art-161/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-161/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-161/par-1/item-1 the act has the actual risk that the bankrupt would conceal, gratuitously convey, or otherwise dispose of the property in a manner prejudicial to bankruptcy creditors (referred to below as "concealing or carrying out other disposal") by realizing real property or otherwise changing the type of property through the disposal; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 破産者が、当該行為の当時、対価として取得した金銭その他の財産について、隠匿等の処分をする意思を有していたこと。 art-161/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-161/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-161/par-1/item-2 the bankrupt had the intention of concealing or carrying out other disposal of the money or any other property received as consideration for the act at the time of the act; or Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **三** 相手方が、当該行為の当時、破産者が前号の隠匿等の処分をする意思を有していたことを知っていたこと。 art-161/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-161/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-161/par-1/item-3 the other party had the knowledge that the bankrupt had the intention of concealing or carrying out other disposal referred to in the preceding item at the time of the act. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の規定の適用については、当該行為の相手方が次に掲げる者のいずれかであるときは、その相手方は、当該行為の当時、破産者が同項第二号の隠匿等の処分をする意思を有していたことを知っていたものと推定する。 art-161/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-161/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-161/par-2 For the application of the provisions of the preceding paragraph, if the other party to the act is any of the following persons, at the time of the act the other party is presumed to have known that the bankrupt had the intention of concealing or carrying out other disposal referred to in item (ii) of that paragraph: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 破産者が法人である場合のその理事、取締役、執行役、監事、監査役、清算人又はこれらに準ずる者 art-161/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-161/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-161/par-2/item-1 if the bankrupt is a corporation, its director, company director, executive officer, inspector, company auditor, liquidator, or any other person equivalent to them; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 破産者が法人である場合にその破産者について次のイからハまでに掲げる者のいずれかに該当する者 art-161/par-2/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-161/par-2/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-161/par-2/item-2 if the bankrupt is a corporation, a person that falls under any of the persons stated in the following sub-items (a) through (c) in relation to the bankrupt: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **イ** 破産者である株式会社の総株主の議決権の過半数を有する者 art-161/par-2/item-2/sub-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-161/par-2/item-2/sub-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-161/par-2/item-2/sub-1 a person that holds the majority of voting rights of all shareholders of the stock company that is the bankrupt; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **ロ** 破産者である株式会社の総株主の議決権の過半数を子株式会社又は親法人及び子株式会社が有する場合における当該親法人 art-161/par-2/item-2/sub-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-161/par-2/item-2/sub-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-161/par-2/item-2/sub-2 the parent corporation when the majority of voting rights of all shareholders of the stock company that is the bankrupt are held by its subsidiary stock company or jointly by the parent corporation and its subsidiary stock company; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **ハ** 株式会社以外の法人が破産者である場合におけるイ又はロに掲げる者に準ずる者 art-161/par-2/item-2/sub-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-161/par-2/item-2/sub-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-161/par-2/item-2/sub-3 if the bankrupt is a corporation other than a stock company, a person equivalent to the persons stated in sub-item (a) or (b); Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **三** 破産者の親族又は同居者 art-161/par-2/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-161/par-2/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-161/par-2/item-3 the bankrupt's relative or a person living together with the bankrupt. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-161/par-1/item-3: 前号 → 破産法 第百六十一条第一項第二号 (Article 161, paragraph (1), item (ii)), art-161/par-1/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-161/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-161/par-1/item-2 - art-161/par-2: 前項 → 破産法 第百六十一条第一項 (Article 161, paragraph (1)), art-161/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-161/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-161/par-1 - art-161/par-2: 同項第二号 → 破産法 第百六十一条第一項第二号 (Article 161, paragraph (1), item (ii)), art-161/par-1/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-161/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-161/par-1/item-2 ## Cited by 11 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 破産法 第五条第三項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-5/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-5/par-3 - 破産法 第百六十一条第一項第三号（相当の対価を得てした財産の処分行為の否認） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-161/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-161/par-1/item-3 - 破産法 第百六十一条第二項（相当の対価を得てした財産の処分行為の否認） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-161/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-161/par-2 - 破産法 第百六十二条第二項第一号（特定の債権者に対する担保の供与等の否認） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-162/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-162/par-2/item-1 - 破産法 第百六十八条第一項（破産者の受けた反対給付に関する相手方の権利等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-168/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-168/par-1 - 破産法 第百六十八条第三項（破産者の受けた反対給付に関する相手方の権利等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-168/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-168/par-3 - 破産法 第百六十八条第四項（破産者の受けた反対給付に関する相手方の権利等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-168/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-168/par-4 - 破産法 第百七十条第一項第二号（転得者に対する否認権） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-170/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-170/par-1/item-2 - 破産法 第百七十条の二第一項（破産者の受けた反対給付に関する転得者の権利等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-170-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-170-2/par-1 - 破産法 第百七十条の二第三項（破産者の受けた反対給付に関する転得者の権利等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-170-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-170-2/par-3 - 破産法 第二百四十四条の十第二項（否認権に関する規定の適用関係等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-244-10/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-244-10/par-2 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 破産法 — the text in force from 2026-05-21 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/416AC0000000075/20260521_505AC0000000053), retrieved 2026-10-19 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Bankruptcy Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4895/tb), retrieved 2026-10-19 - This site's parser, version 204 — 破産法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-19