# 民事執行法 / Civil Enforcement Act — 第百二十九条 (Article 129) - 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: 第百二十九条 (Article 129)（剰余を生ずる見込みのない場合の差押えの禁止等） — address `art-129` - Text in force since: 2026-05-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-129 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-129 - 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. --- ### 第百二十九条（剰余を生ずる見込みのない場合の差押えの禁止等） — (Prohibition of a Seizure if Surplus Is Not Expected) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-129 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-129 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-129 **第一項** 差し押さえるべき動産の売得金の額が手続費用の額を超える見込みがないときは、執行官は、差押えをしてはならない。 art-129/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-129/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-129/par-1 When the amount of proceeds from the movables to be seized is not expected to exceed the amount of the procedural expenses, a court enforcement officer must not carry out the seizure. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 差押物の売得金の額が手続費用及び差押債権者の債権に優先する債権の額の合計額以上となる見込みがないときは、執行官は、差押えを取り消さなければならない。 art-129/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-129/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-129/par-2 When the amount of proceeds from the seized property is not expected to reach the total amount of the procedural expenses and the amount of any claims that take precedence over the claim of the attaching obligee, a court enforcement officer must void the seizure. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 会社法 第五百三十八条第三項（換価の方法） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-538/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-538/par-3 - 破産法 第四十二条第三項（他の手続の失効等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-42/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-42/par-3 - 破産法 第百八十四条第三項（換価の方法） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-184/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-184/par-3 - 破産法 第百八十七条第五項（担保権の実行の申立て） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-187/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-187/par-5 --- ## 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