# 民法 / Civil Code — 第三百八十九条 (Article 389) - 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: 第三百八十九条 (Article 389)（抵当地の上の建物の競売） — address `art-389` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-389 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-389 - 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. --- ### 第三百八十九条（抵当地の上の建物の競売） — (Auction of Buildings on Mortgaged Lands) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-389 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-389 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-389 **第一項** 抵当権の設定後に抵当地に建物が築造されたときは、抵当権者は、土地とともにその建物を競売することができる。ただし、その優先権は、土地の代価についてのみ行使することができる。 art-389/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-389/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-389/par-1 If a building is constructed on a mortgaged land after the creation of a mortgage, the mortgagee may auction the building together with the land; provided, however, that the right of priority of that mortgagee may be exercised solely against the proceeds of the land. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の規定は、その建物の所有者が抵当地を占有するについて抵当権者に対抗することができる権利を有する場合には、適用しない。 art-389/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-389/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-389/par-2 The provisions of the preceding paragraph do not apply if the owner of that building has rights with respect to the possession of the mortgaged land that may be duly asserted against the mortgagee. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-389/par-2: 前項 → 民法 第三百八十九条第一項 (Article 389, paragraph (1)), art-389/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-389/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-389/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 第三百八十九条第二項（抵当地の上の建物の競売） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-389/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-389/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