# 民法 / Civil Code — 第四百二十三条の七 (Article 423-7) - 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: 第四百二十三条の七 (Article 423-7)（登記又は登録の請求権を保全するための債権者代位権） — address `art-423-7` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-423-7 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-423-7 - 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. --- ### 第四百二十三条の七（登記又は登録の請求権を保全するための債権者代位権） — (Obligee's Right of Subrogation to Preserve the Right to Request Registration) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-423-7 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-423-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-423-7 **第一項** 登記又は登録をしなければ権利の得喪及び変更を第三者に対抗することができない財産を譲り受けた者は、その譲渡人が第三者に対して有する登記手続又は登録手続をすべきことを請求する権利を行使しないときは、その権利を行使することができる。この場合においては、前三条の規定を準用する。 art-423-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-423-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-423-7/par-1 A person that has acquired by assignment from another person a property for which the acquisition or loss of rights and the change to rights cannot be duly asserted against a third party unless registered may exercise the assignor's right to request a third party to complete the registration procedure if the assignor does not exercise that right. In such a case, the provisions of the preceding three Articles apply mutatis mutandis. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-423-7/par-1: 前三条 → 民法 第四百二十三条の四 (Article 423-4), art-423-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-423-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-423-4 - art-423-7/par-1: 前三条 → 民法 第四百二十三条の五 (Article 423-5), art-423-5 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-423-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-423-5 - art-423-7/par-1: 前三条 → 民法 第四百二十三条の六 (Article 423-6), art-423-6 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-423-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-423-6 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 附則第十八条第二項（債権者代位権に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/suppl-4291-44/art-18/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-4291-44/art-18/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