# 民事執行法 / Civil Enforcement Act — 第百五十七条 (Article 157) - 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: 第百五十七条 (Article 157)（取立訴訟） — address `art-157` - Text in force since: 2026-05-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-157 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-157 - 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. --- ### 第百五十七条（取立訴訟） — (Suit for Collection) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-157 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-157 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-157 **第一項** 差押債権者が第三債務者に対し差し押さえた債権に係る給付を求める訴え（以下「取立訴訟」という。）を提起したときは、受訴裁判所は、第三債務者の申立てにより、他の債権者で訴状の送達の時までにその債権を差し押さえたものに対し、共同訴訟人として原告に参加すべきことを命ずることができる。 art-157/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-157/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-157/par-1 When an attaching obligee has filed an action seeking performance of a seized claim (referred to as a "suit for collection" below) against a third party obligor, the court in charge of the case may, upon petition by the third party obligor, order any other obligee who has seized the claim by the time of the service of the complaint to intervene on the plaintiff's side as a co-litigants Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の裁判は、口頭弁論を経ないですることができる。 art-157/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-157/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-157/par-2 The court may render the judicial decision referred to in the preceding paragraph without hearing oral arguments. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 取立訴訟の判決の効力は、第一項の規定により参加すべきことを命じられた差押債権者で参加しなかつたものにも及ぶ。 art-157/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-157/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-157/par-3 Effects of a judgment in a suit for collection extend even to any attaching obligees who had been ordered to intervene pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) but had failed to intervene. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第四項** 前条第二項又は第三項の規定により供託の義務を負う第三債務者に対する取立訴訟において、原告の請求を認容するときは、受訴裁判所は、請求に係る金銭の支払は供託の方法によりすべき旨を判決の主文に掲げなければならない。 art-157/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-157/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-157/par-4 When upholding the plaintiff's claim in a suit for collection against a third party obligor who is obligated to make a statutory deposit pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (2) or (3) of the preceding Article, the court in charge of the case must include a statement that the payment of money for the claim should be made by the method of a statutory deposit in the main text of the judgment. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第五項** 強制執行又は競売において、前項に規定する判決の原告が配当等を受けるべきときは、その配当等の額に相当する金銭は、供託しなければならない。 art-157/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-157/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-157/par-5 When the plaintiff of the judgment prescribed in the preceding paragraph is to receive distribution or payment in judicial enforcement or an auction, a statutory deposit of money equivalent to the amount of the distribution or payment must be made. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-157/par-2: 前項 → 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-157/par-3: 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-157/par-4: 前条第二項 → 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-157/par-4: 第三項 → 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 - art-157/par-5: 前項 → 民事執行法 第百五十七条第四項 (Article 157, paragraph (4)), art-157/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-157/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-157/par-4 ## Cited by 7 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民事執行法 第百五十六条第二項（第三債務者の供託） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-156/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-156/par-2 - 民事執行法 第百五十七条第二項（取立訴訟） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-157/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-157/par-2 - 民事執行法 第百五十七条第三項（取立訴訟） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-157/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-157/par-3 - 民事執行法 第百五十七条第五項（取立訴訟） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-157/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-157/par-5 - 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 - This site's parser, version 204 — 民事執行法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-19