# 民事執行法 / Civil Enforcement Act — 第百三十七条 (Article 137) - 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: 第百三十七条 (Article 137)（執行停止中の売却） — address `art-137` - Text in force since: 2026-05-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-137 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-137 - 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. --- ### 第百三十七条（執行停止中の売却） — (Sale During a Stay of Enforcement) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-137 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-137 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-137 **第一項** 第三十九条第一項第七号又は第八号に掲げる文書の提出があつた場合において、差押物について著しい価額の減少を生ずるおそれがあるとき、又はその保管のために不相応な費用を要するときは、執行官は、その差押物を売却することができる。 art-137/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-137/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-137/par-1 If a document stated in Article 39, paragraph (1), item (vii) or (viii) has been submitted, and if there is a likelihood of a considerable decline in the price of the seized property or if an inappropriate amount of costs is required for the retention of that seized property, a court enforcement officer may sell the seized property. machine translation, not official **第二項** 執行官は、前項の規定により差押物を売却したときは、その売得金を供託しなければならない。 art-137/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-137/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-137/par-2 A court enforcement officer, when the officer has sold seized property pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, must make a statutory deposit of the proceeds of the sale. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-137/par-1: 第三十九条第一項第七号 → 民事執行法 第三十九条第一項第七号 (Article 39, paragraph (1), item (vii)), art-39/par-1/item-7 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-39/par-1/item-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-39/par-1/item-7 - art-137/par-1: 第八号 → 民事執行法 第三十九条第一項第八号 (Article 39, paragraph (1), item (viii)), art-39/par-1/item-8 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-39/par-1/item-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-39/par-1/item-8 - art-137/par-2: 前項 → 民事執行法 第百三十七条第一項 (Article 137, paragraph (1)), art-137/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-137/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-137/par-1 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民事執行法 第百三十七条第二項（執行停止中の売却） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-137/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-137/par-2 - 民事執行法 第百四十条第一項（配当等を受けるべき債権者の範囲） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-140/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-140/par-1 --- ## 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