# 破産法 / Bankruptcy Act — 第百七十条 (Article 170) - 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: 第百七十条 (Article 170)（転得者に対する否認権） — address `art-170` - Text in force since: 2026-05-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-170 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-170 - 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. --- ### 第百七十条（転得者に対する否認権） — (Right of Avoidance Against Subsequent Acquirers) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-170 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-170 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-170 **第一項** 次の各号に掲げる場合において、否認しようとする行為の相手方に対して否認の原因があるときは、否認権は、当該各号に規定する転得者に対しても、行使することができる。ただし、当該転得者が他の転得者から転得した者である場合においては、当該転得者の前に転得した全ての転得者に対しても否認の原因があるときに限る。 art-170/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-170/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-170/par-1 In the cases stated in the following items, a right of avoidance may also be exercised against subsequent acquirers specified in the respective item if there are grounds for avoidance against the other party to the act to be avoided; provided, however, that if the relevant subsequent acquirer acquired the subject matter from another subsequent acquirer, this is limited to cases in which there were grounds for avoidance against all subsequent acquirers that acquired the subject matter before the relevant subsequent acquirer acquired the subject matter: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 転得者が転得の当時、破産者がした行為が破産債権者を害することを知っていたとき。 art-170/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-170/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-170/par-1/item-1 when a subsequent acquirer had known that the act of the bankrupt would prejudice the bankruptcy creditors at the time of acquisition; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 転得者が第百六十一条第二項各号に掲げる者のいずれかであるとき。ただし、転得の当時、破産者がした行為が破産債権者を害することを知らなかったときは、この限りでない。 art-170/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-170/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-170/par-1/item-2 when a subsequent acquirer is any of the persons stated in the items of Article 161, paragraph (2); provided, however, that this does not apply if the subsequent acquirers did not know that the act of the bankrupt would prejudice the bankruptcy creditors at the time of acquisition; and Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **三** 転得者が無償行為又はこれと同視すべき有償行為によって転得した者であるとき。 art-170/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-170/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-170/par-1/item-3 when a subsequent acquirer acquired the subject matter by a gratuitous act or by an onerous act that should be deemed to be equivalent to that act. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 第百六十七条第二項の規定は、前項第三号の規定により否認権の行使があった場合について準用する。 art-170/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-170/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-170/par-2 The provisions of Article 167, paragraph (2) apply mutatis mutandis when a right of avoidance is exercised pursuant to the provisions of item (iii) of the preceding paragraph. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-170/par-1/item-2: 第百六十一条第二項 → 破産法 第百六十一条第二項 (Article 161, paragraph (2)), art-161/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-161/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-161/par-2 - art-170/par-2: 第百六十七条第二項 → 破産法 第百六十七条第二項 (Article 167, paragraph (2)), art-167/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-167/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-167/par-2 - art-170/par-2: 前項第三号 → 破産法 第百七十条第一項第三号 (Article 170, paragraph (1), item (iii)), art-170/par-1/item-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-170/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-170/par-1/item-3 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 会社法 第五百七十四条第三項（破産手続開始の決定） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-574/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-574/par-3 - 破産法 第百七十条第二項（転得者に対する否認権） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-170/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-170/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