# 民法 / Civil Code — 第五百二十条の三 (Article 520-3) - 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: 第五百二十条の三 (Article 520-3)（指図証券の裏書の方式） — address `art-520-3` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-520-3 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-520-3 - 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. --- ### 第五百二十条の三（指図証券の裏書の方式） — (Method of Indorsement of Negotiable Instrument Payable to Order) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-520-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-520-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-520-3 **第一項** 指図証券の譲渡については、その指図証券の性質に応じ、手形法（昭和七年法律第二十号）中裏書の方式に関する規定を準用する。 art-520-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-520-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-520-3/par-1 With regard to assignment of a negotiable instrument payable to order, the provisions concerning the method of indorsement in the Negotiable Instrument Act (Act No. 20 of 1932) apply mutatis mutandis depending on the nature of the negotiable instrument payable to order. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 第五百二十条の七第一項（指図証券の質入れ） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-520-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-520-7/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