# 民法 / Civil Code — 第四百八十一条 (Article 481) - 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: 第四百八十一条 (Article 481)（差押えを受けた債権の第三債務者の弁済） — address `art-481` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-481 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-481 - 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. --- ### 第四百八十一条（差押えを受けた債権の第三債務者の弁済） — (Performance by Third Party Obligor of Claim Seized) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-481 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-481 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-481 **第一項** 差押えを受けた債権の第三債務者が自己の債権者に弁済をしたときは、差押債権者は、その受けた損害の限度において更に弁済をすべき旨を第三債務者に請求することができる。 art-481/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-481/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-481/par-1 If a third party obligor of a claim that has been seized performs the obligation to that third party's own obligee, the attaching obligee is entitled to request the third party obligor to perform the obligation de novo to the extent of the damage sustained by the attaching obligee. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の規定は、第三債務者からその債権者に対する求償権の行使を妨げない。 art-481/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-481/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-481/par-2 The provisions of the preceding paragraph do not preclude the relevant third party obligor from exercising the right to reimbursement from the obligee. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-481/par-2: 前項 → 民法 第四百八十一条第一項 (Article 481, paragraph (1)), art-481/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-481/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-481/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 第四百八十一条第二項（差押えを受けた債権の第三債務者の弁済） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-481/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-481/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