# 民法 / Civil Code — 第三百七十五条 (Article 375) - 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: 第三百七十五条 (Article 375)（抵当権の被担保債権の範囲） — address `art-375` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-375 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-375 - 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. --- ### 第三百七十五条（抵当権の被担保債権の範囲） — (Scope of Secured Claims Under Mortgages) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-375 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-375 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-375 **第一項** 抵当権者は、利息その他の定期金を請求する権利を有するときは、その満期となった最後の二年分についてのみ、その抵当権を行使することができる。ただし、それ以前の定期金についても、満期後に特別の登記をしたときは、その登記の時からその抵当権を行使することを妨げない。 art-375/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-375/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-375/par-1 If a mortgagee has the right to demand periodic payments including interest, that mortgagee may exercise the mortgage solely with respect to payments of the last two years before maturity; provided, however, that with respect to prior periodic payments, if special registration is effected after maturity, the mortgagee is not precluded from exercising the mortgage as from the time of that registration. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の規定は、抵当権者が債務の不履行によって生じた損害の賠償を請求する権利を有する場合におけるその最後の二年分についても適用する。ただし、利息その他の定期金と通算して二年分を超えることができない。 art-375/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-375/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-375/par-2 If the mortgagee has the right to claim compensation for damage resulting from defaults in obligations, the provisions of the preceding paragraph also apply to the damage of the most recent two years; provided, however, that the aggregate period including the interest and other periodic payments may not exceed two years. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-375/par-2: 前項 → 民法 第三百七十五条第一項 (Article 375, paragraph (1)), art-375/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-375/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-375/par-1 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 不動産登記法 第八十八条第一項第二号（抵当権の登記の登記事項） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/real-property-registration-act/art-88/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000123/art-88/par-1/item-2 - 民法 第三百七十五条第二項（抵当権の被担保債権の範囲） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-375/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-375/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