# 民法 / Civil Code — 第五百二十条の十五 (Article 520-15) - 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: 第五百二十条の十五 (Article 520-15)（記名式所持人払証券の善意取得） — address `art-520-15` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-520-15 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-520-15 - 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. --- ### 第五百二十条の十五（記名式所持人払証券の善意取得） — (Good Faith Acquisition of Registered Negotiable Instrument Payable to Holder) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-520-15 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-520-15 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-520-15 **第一項** 何らかの事由により記名式所持人払証券の占有を失った者がある場合において、その所持人が前条の規定によりその権利を証明するときは、その所持人は、その証券を返還する義務を負わない。ただし、その所持人が悪意又は重大な過失によりその証券を取得したときは、この限りでない。 art-520-15/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-520-15/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-520-15/par-1 If a person, for any reason, loses possession of a registered negotiable instrument payable to holder, and the holder of the instrument proves that holder's rights pursuant to the provisions of the preceding Article, the holder is not obligated to return the instrument; provided, however, that this does not apply if the holder has acquired the instrument in bad faith or due to gross negligence. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-520-15/par-1: 前条 → 民法 第五百二十条の十四 (Article 520-14), art-520-14 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-520-14 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-520-14 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 第五百二十条の十七第一項（記名式所持人払証券の質入れ） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-520-17/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-520-17/par-1 - 民法 附則第二十八条第一項（有価証券に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/suppl-4291-44/art-28/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-4291-44/art-28/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