# 民法 / Civil Code — 第三百九十四条 (Article 394) - 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: 第三百九十四条 (Article 394)（抵当不動産以外の財産からの弁済） — address `art-394` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-394 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-394 - 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. --- ### 第三百九十四条（抵当不動産以外の財産からの弁済） — (Payment from Assets Other Than Mortgaged Immovables) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-394 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-394 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-394 **第一項** 抵当権者は、抵当不動産の代価から弁済を受けない債権の部分についてのみ、他の財産から弁済を受けることができる。 art-394/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-394/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-394/par-1 A mortgagee may receive payment from assets other than the mortgaged immovables only for the portion of that mortgagee's claim that is not paid from the proceeds of the relevant mortgaged immovables. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の規定は、抵当不動産の代価に先立って他の財産の代価を配当すべき場合には、適用しない。この場合において、他の各債権者は、抵当権者に同項の規定による弁済を受けさせるため、抵当権者に配当すべき金額の供託を請求することができる。 art-394/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-394/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-394/par-2 The provisions of the preceding paragraph do not apply if the proceeds of other assets are to be distributed before the proceeds of the mortgaged immovables. In these cases, each other obligee may demand that the amount to be distributed to the mortgagee be deposited in order to have the mortgagee receive payment under the provisions of that paragraph. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-394/par-2: 前項 → 民法 第三百九十四条第一項 (Article 394, paragraph (1)), art-394/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-394/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-394/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 第三百九十四条第二項（抵当不動産以外の財産からの弁済） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-394/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-394/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