# 民法 / Civil Code — 第四百六十八条 (Article 468) - 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: 第四百六十八条 (Article 468)（債権の譲渡における債務者の抗弁） — address `art-468` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-468 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-468 - 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. --- ### 第四百六十八条（債権の譲渡における債務者の抗弁） — (Defense of Obligor upon Assignment of Claim) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-468 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-468 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-468 **第一項** 債務者は、対抗要件具備時までに譲渡人に対して生じた事由をもって譲受人に対抗することができる。 art-468/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-468/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-468/par-1 An obligor may duly assert against the assignee any event that has taken place with regard to the assignor by the time when the requirements for perfection are satisfied. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 第四百六十六条第四項の場合における前項の規定の適用については、同項中「対抗要件具備時」とあるのは、「第四百六十六条第四項の相当の期間を経過した時」とし、第四百六十六条の三の場合における同項の規定の適用については、同項中「対抗要件具備時」とあるのは、「第四百六十六条の三の規定により同条の譲受人から供託の請求を受けた時」とする。 art-468/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-468/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-468/par-2 For the purpose of the application of the provisions of the preceding paragraph in the case referred to in Article 466, paragraph (4), the phrase at the time when the requirements for perfection are satisfied" in that paragraph is deemed to be replaced with "at the time when a reasonable period of time referred to in Article 466, paragraph (4) has passed"; and to apply the provisions of that paragraph in the case referred to in Article 466-3, the phrase "at the time when the requirements for perfection are satisfied" in that paragraph is deemed to be replaced with "at the time when the obligor receives a request from the assignee referred to in Article 466-3 to make a deposit with an official depository pursuant to the provisions of that Article". Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-468/par-2: 第四百六十六条第四項 → 民法 第四百六十六条第四項 (Article 466, paragraph (4)), art-466/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-466/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-466/par-4 - art-468/par-2: 前項 → 民法 第四百六十八条第一項 (Article 468, paragraph (1)), art-468/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-468/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-468/par-1 - art-468/par-2: 第四百六十六条の三 → 民法 第四百六十六条の三 (Article 466-3), art-466-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-466-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-466-3 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 第四百六十八条第二項（債権の譲渡における債務者の抗弁） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-468/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-468/par-2 - 民法 附則第二十二条第一項（債権の譲渡に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/suppl-4291-44/art-22/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-4291-44/art-22/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