# 民法 / Civil Code — 第四百二十四条の四 (Article 424-4) - 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: 第四百二十四条の四 (Article 424-4)（過大な代物弁済等の特則） — address `art-424-4` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-424-4 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-424-4 - 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. --- ### 第四百二十四条の四（過大な代物弁済等の特則） — (Special Provisions for Substitute Performance for Excessive Consideration) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-424-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-424-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-424-4 **第一項** 債務者がした債務の消滅に関する行為であって、受益者の受けた給付の価額がその行為によって消滅した債務の額より過大であるものについて、第四百二十四条に規定する要件に該当するときは、債権者は、前条第一項の規定にかかわらず、その消滅した債務の額に相当する部分以外の部分については、詐害行為取消請求をすることができる。 art-424-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-424-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-424-4/par-1 With respect to an act concerning the extinguishment of an obligation which has been committed by the obligor, if the value of the payment or delivery received by the beneficiary exceeds the amount of the obligation extinguished by that act, and the act satisfies the requirement prescribed in Article 424, the obligee may make demand for revocation of fraudulent act with regard to the part other than the part corresponding to the amount of the obligation extinguished, notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (1) of the preceding Article. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-424-4/par-1: 第四百二十四条 → 民法 第四百二十四条 (Article 424), art-424 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-424 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-424 - art-424-4/par-1: 前条第一項 → 民法 第四百二十四条の三第一項 (Article 424-3, paragraph (1)), art-424-3/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-424-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-424-3/par-1 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 第四百二十五条の三第一項（受益者の債権の回復） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-425-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-425-3/par-1 - 民法 第四百二十五条の四第一項第二号（詐害行為取消請求を受けた転得者の権利） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-425-4/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-425-4/par-1/item-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