# 民事執行法 / Civil Enforcement Act — 第百二十一条 (Article 121)

- Law: 民事執行法 (Civil Enforcement Act), 昭和五十四年法律第四号
- English title "Civil Enforcement Act": 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: 第百二十一条 (Article 121)（不動産に対する強制競売の規定の準用） — address `art-121`
- Text in force since: 2026-05-21
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-121
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-121
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### 第百二十一条（不動産に対する強制競売の規定の準用） — (Application Mutatis Mutandis of the Provisions on the Compulsory Auction of Immovable Property)
<sup>caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>
<sup>art-121 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-121 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-121</sup>

    **第一項**  前款第二目（第四十五条第一項、第四十六条第二項、第四十八条、第五十四条、第五十五条第一項第二号、第五十六条、第六十四条の二、第六十五条の二、第六十八条の四、第七十一条第五号、第八十一条及び第八十二条を除く。）の規定は船舶執行について、第四十八条、第五十四条及び第八十二条の規定は船舶法（明治三十二年法律第四十六号）第一条に規定する日本船舶に対する強制執行について、それぞれ準用する。この場合において、第五十一条第一項中「第百八十一条第一項各号に掲げる文書」とあるのは「文書」と、「一般の先取特権」とあるのは「先取特権」と読み替えるものとする。
    <sup>art-121/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-121/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-121/par-1</sup>
    The provisions of Division 2 of the preceding Subsection (excluding Article 45, paragraph (1), Article 46, paragraph (2), Article 48, Article 54, Article 55, paragraph (1), item (ii), Article 56, Article 64-2, Article 65-2, Article 68-4, Article 71, item (v), Article 81 and Article 82) apply mutatis mutandis to vessel enforcement, and the provisions of Article 48, Article 54 and Article 82 apply mutatis mutandis to judicial enforcement against a Japanese vessel prescribed in Article 1 of the Ship Act (Act No. 46 of 1899), respectively. In this case, the phrase "any of the documents stated in the items of Article 181, paragraph (1)" in Article 51, paragraph (1) is deemed to be replaced with "a document", and the phrase "a general statutory lien" is deemed to be replaced with "a statutory lien".
    <sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- art-121/par-1: 第四十五条第一項 → 民事執行法 第四十五条第一項 (Article 45, paragraph (1)), art-45/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-45/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-45/par-1
- art-121/par-1: 第四十六条第二項 → 民事執行法 第四十六条第二項 (Article 46, paragraph (2)), art-46/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-46/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-46/par-2
- art-121/par-1: 第四十八条 → 民事執行法 第四十八条 (Article 48), art-48 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-48 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-48
- art-121/par-1: 第五十四条 → 民事執行法 第五十四条 (Article 54), art-54 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-54 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-54
- art-121/par-1: 第五十五条第一項第二号 → 民事執行法 第五十五条第一項第二号 (Article 55, paragraph (1), item (ii)), art-55/par-1/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-55/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-55/par-1/item-2
- art-121/par-1: 第五十六条 → 民事執行法 第五十六条 (Article 56), art-56 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-56 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-56
- art-121/par-1: 第六十四条の二 → 民事執行法 第六十四条の二 (Article 64-2), art-64-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-64-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-64-2
- art-121/par-1: 第六十五条の二 → 民事執行法 第六十五条の二 (Article 65-2), art-65-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-65-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-65-2
- art-121/par-1: 第六十八条の四 → 民事執行法 第六十八条の四 (Article 68-4), art-68-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-68-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-68-4
- art-121/par-1: 第七十一条第五号 → 民事執行法 第七十一条第一項第五号 (Article 71, paragraph (1), item (v)), art-71/par-1/item-5 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-71/par-1/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-71/par-1/item-5
- art-121/par-1: 第八十一条 → 民事執行法 第八十一条 (Article 81), art-81 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-81 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-81
- art-121/par-1: 第八十二条 → 民事執行法 第八十二条 (Article 82), art-82 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-82 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-82
- art-121/par-1: 船舶法（明治三十二年法律第四十六号）第一条 → e-Gov law 132AC0000000046, 第一条 (Article 1), art-1 — not held in this collection
- art-121/par-1: 第五十一条第一項 → 民事執行法 第五十一条第一項 (Article 51, paragraph (1)), art-51/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-51/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-51/par-1
- art-121/par-1: 第百八十一条第一項 → 民事執行法 第百八十一条第一項 (Article 181, paragraph (1)), art-181/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-181/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-181/par-1

## Cited by

3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 民事執行法 第二百十二条第一項第一号（公示書等損壊罪） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-212/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-212/par-1/item-1
- 民事執行法 第二百十三条第一項第二号（陳述等拒絶の罪） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-213/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-213/par-1/item-2
- 民事執行法 附則第四十五条第一項（民事執行法の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/suppl-4301-29/art-45/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/suppl-4301-29/art-45/par-1

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## Sources

- e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 民事執行法 — the text in force from 2026-05-21 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/354AC0000000004/20260521_505AC0000000053), retrieved 2026-10-19
- Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Civil Enforcement Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4900/tb), retrieved 2026-10-19
- claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch civil-enforcement-act-20261019T093630-003, translated 2026-10-19
- This site's parser, version 204 — 民事執行法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-19