# 民事執行法 / Civil Enforcement Act — 第百二十二条 (Article 122) - 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: 第百二十二条 (Article 122)（動産執行の開始等） — address `art-122` - Text in force since: 2026-05-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-122 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-122 - 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. --- ### 第百二十二条（動産執行の開始等） — (Commencement of Enforcement Against Movables) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-122 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-122 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-122 **第一項** 動産（登記することができない土地の定着物、土地から分離する前の天然果実で一月以内に収穫することが確実であるもの及び裏書の禁止されている有価証券以外の有価証券を含む。以下この節、次章及び第四章において同じ。）に対する強制執行（以下「動産執行」という。）は、執行官の目的物に対する差押えにより開始する。 art-122/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-122/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-122/par-1 Judicial enforcement against movables (including any fixtures on land that are not registrable, natural fruits before being separated from land which are to be harvested within one month for certain, and securities other than those forbidden to be endorsed; the same applies in this Section, the following Chapter and Chapter IV) (referred to as "enforcement against movables" below) is commenced through a seizure of the subject matter by a court enforcement officer. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 動産執行においては、執行官は、差押債権者のためにその債権及び執行費用の弁済を受領することができる。 art-122/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-122/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-122/par-2 In enforcement against movables, a court enforcement officer may accept the performance of the claims and enforcement costs for the attaching obligee. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民事執行法 第百六十九条第二項（動産の引渡しの強制執行） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-169/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-169/par-2 --- ## 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 - This site's parser, version 204 — 民事執行法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-19