# 民事執行法 / Civil Enforcement Act — 第百五十六条 (Article 156) - 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: 第百五十六条 (Article 156)（第三債務者の供託） — address `art-156` - Text in force since: 2026-05-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-156 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-156 - 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. --- ### 第百五十六条（第三債務者の供託） — (Statutory Deposit by a Third Party Obligor) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-156 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-156 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-156 **第一項** 第三債務者は、差押えに係る金銭債権（差押命令により差し押さえられた金銭債権に限る。以下この条及び第百六十一条の二において同じ。）の全額に相当する金銭を債務の履行地の供託所に供託することができる。 art-156/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-156/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-156/par-1 A third party obligor may make a statutory deposit of money equivalent to the total amount of the monetary claim subject to a seizure (limited to a monetary claim seized based on an order of seizure; the same applies in this Article and Article 161-2) to an official depository at the place of performance of the obligation. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 第三債務者は、次条第一項に規定する訴えの訴状の送達を受ける時までに、差押えに係る金銭債権のうち差し押さえられていない部分を超えて発せられた差押命令、差押処分又は仮差押命令の送達を受けたときはその債権の全額に相当する金銭を、配当要求があつた旨を記載した文書の送達を受けたときは差し押さえられた部分に相当する金銭を債務の履行地の供託所に供託しなければならない。 art-156/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-156/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-156/par-2 A third party obligor must, by the time the obligor receives service of the complaint for the action prescribed in paragraph (1) of the following Article, make a statutory deposit, to an official depository at the place of performance of the obligation, of money equivalent to the total amount of the claim if the obligor has been served with an order of seizure, a disposition of seizure or an order of provisional seizure that has been issued beyond the unseized portion of the monetary claim subject to a seizure, or of money equivalent to the seized portion if the obligor has been served with a document stating that a distribution demand has been made. machine translation, not official **第三項** 第三債務者は、第百六十一条の二第一項に規定する供託命令の送達を受けたときは、差押えに係る金銭債権の全額に相当する金銭を債務の履行地の供託所に供託しなければならない。 art-156/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-156/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-156/par-3 A third party obligor, when the obligor has received service of a statutory deposit order prescribed in the provisions of Article 161-2, paragraph (1), must make a statutory deposit of money equivalent to the total amount of the claim subject to a seizure to an official depository at the place of performance of the obligation. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第四項** 第三債務者は、前三項の規定による供託をしたときは、その事情を執行裁判所に届け出なければならない。 art-156/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-156/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-156/par-4 A third party obligor, when the obligor has made a statutory deposit under the preceding three paragraphs, must notify the enforcement court of the circumstances. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-156/par-1: この条 → 民事執行法 第百五十六条 (Article 156), art-156 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-156 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-156 - art-156/par-1: 第百六十一条の二 → 民事執行法 第百六十一条の二 (Article 161-2), art-161-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-161-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-161-2 - art-156/par-2: 次条第一項 → 民事執行法 第百五十七条第一項 (Article 157, paragraph (1)), art-157/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-157/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-157/par-1 - art-156/par-3: 第百六十一条の二第一項 → 民事執行法 第百六十一条の二第一項 (Article 161-2, paragraph (1)), art-161-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-161-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-161-2/par-1 - art-156/par-4: 前三項 → 民事執行法 第百五十六条第一項 (Article 156, paragraph (1)), art-156/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-156/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-156/par-1 - art-156/par-4: 前三項 → 民事執行法 第百五十六条第二項 (Article 156, paragraph (2)), art-156/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-156/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-156/par-2 - art-156/par-4: 前三項 → 民事執行法 第百五十六条第三項 (Article 156, paragraph (3)), art-156/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-156/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-156/par-3 ## Cited by 7 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民事執行法 第百五十六条第一項（第三債務者の供託） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-156/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-156/par-1 - 民事執行法 第百五十六条第四項（第三債務者の供託） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-156/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-156/par-4 - 民事執行法 第百五十七条第四項（取立訴訟） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-157/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-157/par-4 - 民事執行法 第百六十五条第一項第一号（配当等を受けるべき債権者の範囲） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-165/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-165/par-1/item-1 - 民事執行法 第百六十六条第一項第一号（配当等の実施） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-166/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-166/par-1/item-1 - 民事執行法 第百六十七条の十一第一項（配当等のための移行等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-167-11/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-167-11/par-1 - 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 --- ## 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-20261019T093630-004, 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