# 民法 / Civil Code — 第二百九十七条 (Article 297) - Law: 民法 (Civil Code), 明治二十九年法律第八十九号 - English title "Civil Code": 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: 第二百九十七条 (Article 297)（留置権者による果実の収取） — address `art-297` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-297 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-297 - 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. --- ### 第二百九十七条（留置権者による果実の収取） — (Collection of Fruits by Holders of Rights of Retention) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-297 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-297 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-297 **第一項** 留置権者は、留置物から生ずる果実を収取し、他の債権者に先立って、これを自己の債権の弁済に充当することができる。 art-297/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-297/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-297/par-1 A holder of a right of retention may collect fruits derived from the thing retained, and appropriate the same to the satisfaction of that holder's own claim before other obligees. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の果実は、まず債権の利息に充当し、なお残余があるときは元本に充当しなければならない。 art-297/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-297/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-297/par-2 The fruits referred to in the preceding paragraph must be appropriated first to the payment of interest on the claim, and any remainder must be appropriated to the satisfaction of the principal. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-297/par-2: 前項 → 民法 第二百九十七条第一項 (Article 297, paragraph (1)), art-297/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-297/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-297/par-1 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 第二百九十七条第二項（留置権者による果実の収取） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-297/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-297/par-2 - 民法 第三百五十条第一項（留置権及び先取特権の規定の準用） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-350/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-350/par-1 - 遺失物法 第二十七条第二項（費用の負担） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/lost-property-act/art-27/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-27/par-2 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 民法 — the text in force from 2026-06-24 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/129AC0000000089/20260624_508AC0000000045), retrieved 2026-10-11 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Civil Code — Ministry of Justice translation (part 1 of 2) (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4848/tb), retrieved 2026-10-11 - This site's parser, version 190 — 民法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-11