# 破産法 / Bankruptcy Act — 第二百三十五条 (Article 235) - 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: 第二百三十五条 (Article 235)（受遺者に対する担保の供与等の否認） — address `art-235` - Text in force since: 2026-05-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-235 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-235 - 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. Every English rendering below is a translation and says which kind: the Ministry of Justice's translation, or this site's machine translation, whose model and date the Sources list names. They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第二百三十五条（受遺者に対する担保の供与等の否認） — (Avoidance of Provision of Security to Legatees) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-235 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-235 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-235 **第一項** 相続財産について破産手続開始の決定があった場合において、受遺者に対する担保の供与又は債務の消滅に関する行為がその債権に優先する債権を有する破産債権者を害するときは、当該行為を否認することができる。 art-235/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-235/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-235/par-1 If an order commencing bankruptcy proceedings is issued against an estate, if an act concerning the provision of security or extinguishment of debt to a legatee would prejudice a bankruptcy creditor that holds a claim that takes precedence over the legatee's claim, the act may be avoided. 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、前項の行為が同項の規定により否認された場合について準用する。この場合において、同条第二項中「破産債権者を害すること」とあるのは、「第二百三十五条第一項の破産債権者を害すること」と読み替えるものとする。 art-235/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-235/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-235/par-2 The provisions of Article 167, paragraph (2) apply mutatis mutandis when the act stated in the preceding paragraph is avoided pursuant to the provisions of that paragraph. In this case, the phrase "that the act would prejudice a bankruptcy creditor" in Article 167, paragraph (2) is deemed to be replaced with "that the act would prejudice a bankruptcy creditor stated in Article 235, paragraph (1)". Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-235/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-235/par-2: 前項 → 破産法 第二百三十五条第一項 (Article 235, paragraph (1)), art-235/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-235/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-235/par-1 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 破産法 第二百三十五条第二項（受遺者に対する担保の供与等の否認） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-235/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-235/par-2 - 破産法 附則第四条第一項（否認に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/suppl-4161-75/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/suppl-4161-75/art-4/par-1 --- ## 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