# 民事執行法 / Civil Enforcement Act — 第百四十五条 (Article 145)

- 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: 第百四十五条 (Article 145)（差押命令） — address `art-145`
- Text in force since: 2026-05-21
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-145
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### 第百四十五条（差押命令） — (Order of Seizure)
<sup>caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>
<sup>art-145 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-145 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-145</sup>

      **第一項**  執行裁判所は、差押命令において、債務者に対し債権の取立てその他の処分を禁止し、かつ、第三債務者に対し債務者への弁済を禁止しなければならない。
      <sup>art-145/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-145/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-145/par-1</sup>
      An enforcement court must, in an order of seizure, prohibit the obligor from collecting or otherwise disposing the claim and prohibit the third party obligor from providing performance to the obligor.
      <sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

      **第二項**  差押命令は、債務者及び第三債務者を審尋しないで発する。
      <sup>art-145/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-145/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-145/par-2</sup>
      An order of seizure is issued without interrogating the obligor and the third party obligor.
      <sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

      **第三項**  差押命令は、債務者及び第三債務者に送達しなければならない。
      <sup>art-145/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-145/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-145/par-3</sup>
      An order of seizure must be served upon the obligor and the third party obligor.
      <sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

      **第四項**  裁判所書記官は、差押命令を送達するに際し、債務者に対し、最高裁判所規則で定めるところにより、第百五十三条第一項又は第二項の規定による当該差押命令の取消しの申立てをすることができる旨その他最高裁判所規則で定める事項を教示しなければならない。
      <sup>art-145/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-145/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-145/par-4</sup>
      In serving an order of seizure, a court clerk must inform the obligor that a petition for voiding the order of seizure under Article 153, paragraph (1) or (2) can be filed and other matters provided by the Rules of the Supreme Court, pursuant to the provisions of the Rules of the Supreme Court.
      <sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

      **第五項**  差押えの効力は、差押命令が第三債務者に送達された時に生ずる。
      <sup>art-145/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-145/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-145/par-5</sup>
      A seizure becomes effective when an order of seizure is served upon the third party obligor.
      <sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

      **第六項**  差押命令の申立てについての裁判に対しては、執行抗告をすることができる。
      <sup>art-145/par-6 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-145/par-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-145/par-6</sup>
      An appeal may be filed against a judicial decision on a petition for an order of seizure.
      <sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

      **第七項**  執行裁判所は、債務者に対する差押命令の送達をすることができない場合には、差押債権者に対し、相当の期間を定め、その期間内に債務者の住所、居所その他差押命令の送達をすべき場所の申出（第二十条において準用する民事訴訟法第百十条第一項各号に掲げる場合にあつては、公示送達の申立て。次項において同じ。）をすべきことを命ずることができる。
      <sup>art-145/par-7 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-145/par-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-145/par-7</sup>
      If an enforcement court is unable to serve an order of seizure on an obligor, the enforcement court may specify a reasonable period and order the attaching obligee to make, within that period, a proposal for the obligor's address, residence or other place where the order of seizure is to be served (a petition for service by publication, in the cases stated in the items of Article 110, paragraph (1) of the Code of Civil Procedure, which apply mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 20; the same applies in the following paragraph).
      <sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

      **第八項**  執行裁判所は、前項の申出を命じた場合において、差押債権者が同項の申出をしないときは、差押命令を取り消すことができる。
      <sup>art-145/par-8 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-145/par-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-145/par-8</sup>
      If an enforcement court orders the proposal of the preceding paragraph, the enforcement court may set aside the order of seizure if the attaching obligee does not make the proposal of the paragraph.
      <sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

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## Cites
- art-145/par-4: 第百五十三条第一項 → 民事執行法 第百五十三条第一項 (Article 153, paragraph (1)), art-153/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-153/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-153/par-1
- art-145/par-4: 第二項 → 民事執行法 第百五十三条第二項 (Article 153, paragraph (2)), art-153/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-153/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-153/par-2
- art-145/par-7: 第二十条 → 民事執行法 第二十条 (Article 20), art-20 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-20 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-20
- art-145/par-7: 民事訴訟法第百十条第一項 → 民事訴訟法 第百十条第一項 (Article 110, paragraph (1)), art-110/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-110/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-110/par-1
- art-145/par-7: 次項 → 民事執行法 第百四十五条第八項 (Article 145, paragraph (8)), art-145/par-8 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-145/par-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-145/par-8
- art-145/par-8: 前項 → 民事執行法 第百四十五条第七項 (Article 145, paragraph (7)), art-145/par-7 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-145/par-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-145/par-7

## Cited by

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

- 民事執行法 第百四十五条第七項（差押命令） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-145/par-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-145/par-7
- 民事執行法 第百四十五条第八項（差押命令） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-145/par-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-145/par-8
- 民事執行法 第百六十七条の五第二項（差押処分） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-167-5/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-167-5/par-2
- 民事執行法 第百六十七条の五第六項（差押処分） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-167-5/par-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-167-5/par-6
- 民事執行法 第百六十七条の五第八項（差押処分） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-167-5/par-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-167-5/par-8
- 民事執行法 第百七十条第二項（目的物を第三者が占有する場合の引渡しの強制執行） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-170/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-170/par-2
- 民事執行法 第百九十三条第三項（債権及びその他の財産権についての担保権の実行の要件等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-193/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-193/par-3

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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
