# 民法 / Civil Code — 第三百九十八条の二十二 (Article 398-22) - 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: 第三百九十八条の二十二 (Article 398-22)（根抵当権の消滅請求） — address `art-398-22` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-398-22 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-398-22 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第三百九十八条の二十二（根抵当権の消滅請求） — (Requests for Extinguishment of Revolving Mortgages) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-398-22 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-398-22 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-398-22 **第一項** 元本の確定後において現に存する債務の額が根抵当権の極度額を超えるときは、他人の債務を担保するためその根抵当権を設定した者又は抵当不動産について所有権、地上権、永小作権若しくは第三者に対抗することができる賃借権を取得した第三者は、その極度額に相当する金額を払い渡し又は供託して、その根抵当権の消滅請求をすることができる。この場合において、その払渡し又は供託は、弁済の効力を有する。 art-398-22/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-398-22/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-398-22/par-1 If the amount of the obligations currently in existence after the principal is fixed exceeds the maximum amount of a revolving mortgage, the person that created the revolving mortgage to secure the obligations of another person or a third party that has acquired ownership, superficies, farming rights, or a lease that may be duly asserted against any third party with respect to the mortgaged immovables may request the extinguishment of that revolving mortgage on paying or depositing with an official depository an amount equivalent to that maximum amount. In this case, that payment or deposit has the effect of performance of the obligation. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 第三百九十八条の十六の登記がされている根抵当権は、一個の不動産について前項の消滅請求があったときは、消滅する。 art-398-22/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-398-22/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-398-22/par-2 A revolving mortgage that has been registered pursuant to Article 398-16 is extinguished if the request for extinguishment referred to in the preceding paragraph is made with respect to one immovable property. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 第三百八十条及び第三百八十一条の規定は、第一項の消滅請求について準用する。 art-398-22/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-398-22/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-398-22/par-3 The provisions of Articles 380 and 381 apply mutatis mutandis to the requests for extinguishment under paragraph (1). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-398-22/par-2: 第三百九十八条の十六 → 民法 第三百九十八条の十六 (Article 398-16), art-398-16 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-398-16 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-398-16 - art-398-22/par-2: 前項 → 民法 第三百九十八条の二十二第一項 (Article 398-22, paragraph (1)), art-398-22/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-398-22/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-398-22/par-1 - art-398-22/par-3: 第三百八十条 → 民法 第三百八十条 (Article 380), art-380 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-380 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-380 - art-398-22/par-3: 第三百八十一条 → 民法 第三百八十一条 (Article 381), art-381 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-381 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-381 - art-398-22/par-3: 第一項 → 民法 第三百九十八条の二十二第一項 (Article 398-22, paragraph (1)), art-398-22/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-398-22/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-398-22/par-1 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 第三百九十八条の二十二第二項（根抵当権の消滅請求） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-398-22/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-398-22/par-2 - 民法 第三百九十八条の二十二第三項（根抵当権の消滅請求） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-398-22/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-398-22/par-3 - 民法 附則第十一条第一項（旧根抵当権の消滅請求に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/suppl-3461-99/art-11/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-3461-99/art-11/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