# 民法 / Civil Code — 第三百六十六条 (Article 366) - 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: 第三百六十六条 (Article 366)（質権者による債権の取立て等） — address `art-366` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-366 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-366 - 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. --- ### 第三百六十六条（質権者による債権の取立て等） — (Collection of Claims by Pledgees) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-366 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-366 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-366 **第一項** 質権者は、質権の目的である債権を直接に取り立てることができる。 art-366/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-366/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-366/par-1 A pledgee may directly collect the claim that is the subject of the pledge. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 債権の目的物が金銭であるときは、質権者は、自己の債権額に対応する部分に限り、これを取り立てることができる。 art-366/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-366/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-366/par-2 If monies are the subject matter of a pledged claim, the pledgee may collect the same to the extent of the portion that corresponds to the amount of the pledgee's own claim. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 前項の債権の弁済期が質権者の債権の弁済期前に到来したときは、質権者は、第三債務者にその弁済をすべき金額を供託させることができる。この場合において、質権は、その供託金について存在する。 art-366/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-366/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-366/par-3 If the due date of the pledged claim referred to in the preceding paragraph arrives before the due date of the claim of the pledgee, the pledgee may have the third party obligor deposit with official depository that amount to be paid to the pledgee. In this case, the pledge exists over the amount so deposited. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第四項** 債権の目的物が金銭でないときは、質権者は、弁済として受けた物について質権を有する。 art-366/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-366/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-366/par-4 If the subject matter of the pledged claim is not monies, the pledgee has the pledge over the thing received for the satisfaction of the claim. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-366/par-3: 前項 → 民法 第三百六十六条第二項 (Article 366, paragraph (2)), art-366/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-366/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-366/par-2 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 第三百六十六条第三項（質権者による債権の取立て等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-366/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-366/par-3 --- ## 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