# 民事執行法 / Civil Enforcement Act — 第十五条 (Article 15) - 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: 第十五条 (Article 15)（担保の提供） — address `art-15` - Text in force since: 2026-05-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-15 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-15 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第十五条（担保の提供） — (Provision of Security) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-15 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-15 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-15 **第一項** この法律の規定により担保を立てるには、担保を立てるべきことを命じた裁判所（以下この項において「発令裁判所」という。）又は執行裁判所の所在地を管轄する地方裁判所の管轄区域内の供託所に金銭又は発令裁判所が相当と認める有価証券（社債、株式等の振替に関する法律（平成十三年法律第七十五号）第二百七十八条第一項に規定する振替債を含む。）を供託する方法その他最高裁判所規則で定める方法によらなければならない。ただし、当事者が特別の契約をしたときは、その契約による。 art-15/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-15/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-15/par-1 To provide security pursuant to the provisions of this Act, a person must make a deposit of money or securities (including book-entry transfer company bonds prescribed in Article 278, paragraph (1) of the Act on Book-Entry Transfer of Corporate Bonds and Shares (Act No. 75 of 2001)) that the court which has ordered the person to provide security (referred to as the "ordering court" in this paragraph) finds to be reasonable, with an official depository within the jurisdictional district of the district court that has jurisdiction in the locality of the ordering court, or by any other means specified by the Rules of the Supreme Court; provided, however, that if the party concerned has made a special agreement about this, then the agreement prevails. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 民事訴訟法第七十七条、第七十九条及び第八十条の規定は、前項の担保について準用する。 art-15/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-15/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-15/par-2 The provisions of Article 77, Article 79, and Article 80 of the Code of Civil Procedure apply mutatis mutandis to the security referred to in the preceding paragraph. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-15/par-1: この項 → 民事執行法 第十五条第一項 (Article 15, paragraph (1)), art-15/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-15/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-15/par-1 - art-15/par-1: 社債、株式等の振替に関する法律（平成十三年法律第七十五号）第二百七十八条第一項 → e-Gov law 413AC0000000075, 第二百七十八条第一項 (Article 278, paragraph (1)), art-278/par-1 — not held in this collection - art-15/par-2: 民事訴訟法第七十七条 → 民事訴訟法 第七十七条 (Article 77), art-77 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-77 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-77 - art-15/par-2: 第七十九条 → 民事訴訟法 第七十九条 (Article 79), art-79 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-79 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-79 - art-15/par-2: 第八十条 → 民事訴訟法 第八十条 (Article 80), art-80 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-80 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-80 - art-15/par-2: 前項 → 民事執行法 第十五条第一項 (Article 15, paragraph (1)), art-15/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-15/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-15/par-1 ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民事執行法 第十五条第一項（担保の提供） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-15/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-15/par-1 - 民事執行法 第十五条第二項（担保の提供） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-15/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-15/par-2 - 民事執行法 第五十五条の二第四項（相手方を特定しないで発する売却のための保全処分等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-55-2/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-55-2/par-4 - 民事執行法 第百十七条第五項（保証の提供による強制競売の手続の取消し） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-117/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-117/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