# 民法 / Civil Code — 第四百五十三条 (Article 453) - 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: 第四百五十三条 (Article 453)（検索の抗弁） — address `art-453` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-453 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-453 - 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. --- ### 第四百五十三条（検索の抗弁） — (Defense of Debtor's Solvency) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-453 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-453 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-453 **第一項** 債権者が前条の規定に従い主たる債務者に催告をした後であっても、保証人が主たる債務者に弁済をする資力があり、かつ、執行が容易であることを証明したときは、債権者は、まず主たる債務者の財産について執行をしなければならない。 art-453/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-453/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-453/par-1 Even after the obligee has made a demand to the principal obligor in accordance with the provisions of the preceding Article, the obligee must first execute on the property of the principal obligor if the guarantor proves that the principal obligor has the financial resources to pay the obligation and that the execution can be easily performed. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-453/par-1: 前条 → 民法 第四百五十二条 (Article 452), art-452 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-452 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-452 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 第四百五十四条第一項（連帯保証の場合の特則） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-454/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-454/par-1 - 民法 第四百五十五条第一項（催告の抗弁及び検索の抗弁の効果） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-455/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-455/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