# 民法 / Civil Code — 第三百九十八条の十四 (Article 398-14) - 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: 第三百九十八条の十四 (Article 398-14)（根抵当権の共有） — address `art-398-14` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-398-14 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-398-14 - 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. --- ### 第三百九十八条の十四（根抵当権の共有） — (Co-Ownership of Revolving Mortgages) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-398-14 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-398-14 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-398-14 **第一項** 根抵当権の共有者は、それぞれその債権額の割合に応じて弁済を受ける。ただし、元本の確定前に、これと異なる割合を定め、又はある者が他の者に先立って弁済を受けるべきことを定めたときは、その定めに従う。 art-398-14/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-398-14/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-398-14/par-1 Co-owners of a revolving mortgage are paid in proportion to the amount of their respective claims; provided, however, that if before the principal is fixed, a proportion other than the above is agreed upon, or if it is agreed upon that a certain person will be paid before another, that agreement prevails. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 根抵当権の共有者は、他の共有者の同意を得て、第三百九十八条の十二第一項の規定によりその権利を譲り渡すことができる。 art-398-14/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-398-14/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-398-14/par-2 A co-owner in a revolving mortgage may, with the consent of the other co-owners, assign rights of the same pursuant to the provisions of Article 398-12, paragraph (1). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-398-14/par-2: 第三百九十八条の十二第一項 → 民法 第三百九十八条の十二第一項 (Article 398-12, paragraph (1)), art-398-12/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-398-12/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-398-12/par-1 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 不動産登記法 第八十八条第二項第四号（抵当権の登記の登記事項） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/real-property-registration-act/art-88/par-2/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000123/art-88/par-2/item-4 - 不動産登記法 第八十九条第二項（抵当権の順位の変更の登記等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/real-property-registration-act/art-89/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000123/art-89/par-2 - 民法 附則第三条第一項（新法の適用の制限） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/suppl-3461-99/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-3461-99/art-3/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