# 民法 / Civil Code — 第三百三十八条 (Article 338) - 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: 第三百三十八条 (Article 338)（不動産工事の先取特権の登記） — address `art-338` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-338 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-338 - 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. --- ### 第三百三十八条（不動産工事の先取特権の登記） — (Registration of Statutory Liens for Construction Work for Immovables) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-338 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-338 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-338 **第一項** 不動産の工事の先取特権の効力を保存するためには、工事を始める前にその費用の予算額を登記しなければならない。この場合において、工事の費用が予算額を超えるときは、先取特権は、その超過額については存在しない。 art-338/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-338/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-338/par-1 In order to preserve the effectiveness of statutory liens for construction work for immovables, the budgeted expenses of the construction work must be registered before the commencement of the same. In this case, if the expenses of the construction work exceed the budgeted amount, a statutory lien does not exist with respect to the amount in excess of the same. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 工事によって生じた不動産の増価額は、配当加入の時に、裁判所が選任した鑑定人に評価させなければならない。 art-338/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-338/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-338/par-2 The amount of increase in value of immovables that resulted from construction work must be evaluated by an appraiser appointed by the court at the time of the participation in the distribution. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 第三百三十九条第一項（登記をした不動産保存又は不動産工事の先取特権） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-339/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-339/par-1 --- ## 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