# 民事執行法 / Civil Enforcement Act — 第百四十七条 (Article 147) - 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: 第百四十七条 (Article 147)（第三債務者の陳述の催告） — address `art-147` - Text in force since: 2026-05-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-147 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-147 - 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. --- ### 第百四十七条（第三債務者の陳述の催告） — (Demanding a Third Party Obligor Statement) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-147 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-147 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-147 **第一項** 差押債権者の申立てがあるときは、裁判所書記官は、差押命令を送達するに際し、第三債務者に対し、差押命令の送達の日から二週間以内に差押えに係る債権の存否その他の最高裁判所規則で定める事項について陳述すべき旨を催告しなければならない。 art-147/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-147/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-147/par-1 When a petition has been filed by the attaching obligee, a court clerk must, upon servicing an order of seizure, make a demand to the third party obligor to state the presence or absence of any claim subject to a seizure and any other matters specified by the Rules of the Supreme Court within two weeks from the day of service of the order of seizure. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 第三債務者は、前項の規定による催告に対して、故意又は過失により、陳述をしなかつたとき、又は不実の陳述をしたときは、これによつて生じた損害を賠償する責めに任ずる。 art-147/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-147/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-147/par-2 A third party obligor, when the obligor has failed to make a statement or has made a false statement intentionally or negligently in response to a demand under the preceding paragraph, is liable to compensate for any damages that occur as a result Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-147/par-2: 前項 → 民事執行法 第百四十七条第一項 (Article 147, paragraph (1)), art-147/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-147/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-147/par-1 ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民事執行法 第九十三条の三第一項（給付義務者に対する競合する債権差押命令等の陳述の催告） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-93-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-93-3/par-1 - 民事執行法 第百四十七条第二項（第三債務者の陳述の催告） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-147/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-147/par-2 - 民事執行法 第百六十七条の十四第一項（債権執行の規定の準用） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-167-14/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-167-14/par-1 - 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 --- ## 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