# 民法 / Civil Code — 第三百九十八条の十九 (Article 398-19) - 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: 第三百九十八条の十九 (Article 398-19)（根抵当権の元本の確定請求） — address `art-398-19` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-398-19 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-398-19 - 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. --- ### 第三百九十八条の十九（根抵当権の元本の確定請求） — (Requests for Fixing of Principal of Revolving Mortgages) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-398-19 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-398-19 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-398-19 **第一項** 根抵当権設定者は、根抵当権の設定の時から三年を経過したときは、担保すべき元本の確定を請求することができる。この場合において、担保すべき元本は、その請求の時から二週間を経過することによって確定する。 art-398-19/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-398-19/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-398-19/par-1 If three years have passed from the time of the creation of a revolving mortgage, the mortgagor of the revolving mortgage may request the fixing of the principal secured. In this case, the principal secured is fixed when two weeks have passed since the time of that request. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 根抵当権者は、いつでも、担保すべき元本の確定を請求することができる。この場合において、担保すべき元本は、その請求の時に確定する。 art-398-19/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-398-19/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-398-19/par-2 A revolving mortgagee may request the fixing of the principal secured at any time. In this case, the principal secured is fixed on the request of the same. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 前二項の規定は、担保すべき元本の確定すべき期日の定めがあるときは、適用しない。 art-398-19/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-398-19/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-398-19/par-3 The provisions of the preceding two paragraphs do not apply if the date on which the principal secured is to be fixed is specified. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-398-19/par-3: 前二項 → 民法 第三百九十八条の十九第一項 (Article 398-19, paragraph (1)), art-398-19/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-398-19/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-398-19/par-1 - art-398-19/par-3: 前二項 → 民法 第三百九十八条の十九第二項 (Article 398-19, paragraph (2)), art-398-19/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-398-19/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-398-19/par-2 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 不動産登記法 第九十三条第一項（根抵当権の元本の確定の登記） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/real-property-registration-act/art-93/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000123/art-93/par-1 - 民法 第三百九十八条の十九第三項（根抵当権の元本の確定請求） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-398-19/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-398-19/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