# 民事執行法 / Civil Enforcement Act — 第二十二条 (Article 22) - 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: 第二十二条 (Article 22)（債務名義） — address `art-22` - Text in force since: 2026-05-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-22 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-22 - 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. --- ### 第二十二条（債務名義） — (Titles of Obligation) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-22 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-22 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-22 **第一項** 強制執行は、次に掲げるもの（以下「債務名義」という。）により行う。 art-22/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-22/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-22/par-1 Judicial enforcement is carried out based on any of the following (referred to as a "title of obligation" below): Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 確定判決 art-22/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-22/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-22/par-1/item-1 a final and binding judgment; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 仮執行の宣言を付した判決 art-22/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-22/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-22/par-1/item-2 a judgment bearing a declaration of provisional enforcement; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **三** 抗告によらなければ不服を申し立てることができない裁判（確定しなければその効力を生じない裁判にあつては、確定したものに限る。） art-22/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-22/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-22/par-1/item-3 a judicial decision that may not be appealed except in the form of an appeal against a ruling (but only one that has become final and binding, if it constitutes a judicial decision that is only effective once it becomes final and binding); Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **三の二** 仮執行の宣言を付した損害賠償命令 art-22/par-1/item-3-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-22/par-1/item-3-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-22/par-1/item-3-2 an order for damages bearing a declaration of provisional enforcement; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **三の三** 仮執行の宣言を付した届出債権支払命令 art-22/par-1/item-3-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-22/par-1/item-3-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-22/par-1/item-3-3 an order to pay a filed claim bearing a declaration of provisional enforcement; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **四** 仮執行の宣言を付した支払督促 art-22/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-22/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-22/par-1/item-4 a demand for payment bearing a declaration of provisional enforcement; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **四の二** 訴訟費用、和解の費用若しくは非訟事件（他の法令の規定により非訟事件手続法（平成二十三年法律第五十一号）の規定を準用することとされる事件を含む。）、家事事件若しくは国際的な子の奪取の民事上の側面に関する条約の実施に関する法律（平成二十五年法律第四十八号）第二十九条に規定する子の返還に関する事件の手続の費用の負担の額を定める裁判所書記官の処分又は第四十二条第四項に規定する執行費用及び返還すべき金銭の額を定める裁判所書記官の処分（後者の処分にあつては、確定したものに限る。） art-22/par-1/item-4-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-22/par-1/item-4-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-22/par-1/item-4-2 a measure by the court clerk setting the amount to be borne for court costs, settlement costs, or costs of procedures in a non-contentious case (including a case to which the provisions of the Non-Contentious Case Procedures Act (Act No. 51 of 2011) apply mutatis mutandis pursuant to the provisions of other laws and regulations), domestic relations case, or case relating to the return of a child provided for in Article 29 of the Act for Implementation of the Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction (Act No. 48 of 2013); or a measure by the court clerk setting the enforcement costs and the amount of money to be returned provided for in Article 42, paragraph (4) (for the latter measure, this is limited to one that has become final and binding); machine translation, not official **五** 金銭の一定の額の支払又はその他の代替物若しくは有価証券の一定の数量の給付を目的とする請求について公証人が作成した公正証書で、債務者が直ちに強制執行に服する旨の陳述が記載され、又は記録されているもの（以下「執行証書」という。） art-22/par-1/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-22/par-1/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-22/par-1/item-5 a notarial instrument that a notary has prepared concerning a claim for payment of a fixed amount of money or the delivery of a certain amount of any other fungible thing or of securities, which contains or records a statement indicating that the obligor will immediately face judicial enforcement (referred to as a "notarial instrument authorizing enforcement" below); Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **六** 確定した執行判決のある外国裁判所の判決（家事事件における裁判を含む。第二十四条において同じ。） art-22/par-1/item-6 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-22/par-1/item-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-22/par-1/item-6 a foreign court judgment (including a judicial decision in a domestic relations case; the same applies in Article 24) for which an enforcement judgment has become final and binding; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **六の二** 確定した執行決定のある仲裁判断 art-22/par-1/item-6-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-22/par-1/item-6-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-22/par-1/item-6-2 an arbitral award for which an order of enforceability has become final and binding; or Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **六の三** 確定した執行等認可決定のある仲裁法（平成十五年法律第百三十八号）第四十八条に規定する暫定保全措置命令 art-22/par-1/item-6-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-22/par-1/item-6-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-22/par-1/item-6-3 an order for interim measures prescribed in Article 48 of the Arbitration Act (Act No. 138 of 2003) for which an enforcement approval order has become final and binding; machine translation, not official **六の四** 確定した執行決定のある国際和解合意 art-22/par-1/item-6-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-22/par-1/item-6-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-22/par-1/item-6-4 an international settlement agreement for which an order of enforceability has become final and binding; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **六の五** 確定した執行決定のある特定和解 art-22/par-1/item-6-5 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-22/par-1/item-6-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-22/par-1/item-6-5 a specific settlement for which an order of enforceability has become final and binding; or Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **七** 確定判決と同一の効力を有するもの（第三号に掲げる裁判を除く。） art-22/par-1/item-7 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-22/par-1/item-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-22/par-1/item-7 a document that has the same effect as a final and binding judgment (excluding the judicial decision stated in item (iii)). Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "a document that has the same effect as a final and binding judgment (excluding the judicial decision stated in item (iii)." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4900/tb --- ## Cites - art-22/par-1/item-4-2: 国際的な子の奪取の民事上の側面に関する条約の実施に関する法律（平成二十五年法律第四十八号）第二十九条 → e-Gov law 425AC0000000048, 第二十九条 (Article 29), art-29 — not held in this collection - art-22/par-1/item-4-2: 第四十二条第四項 → 民事執行法 第四十二条第四項 (Article 42, paragraph (4)), art-42/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-42/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-42/par-4 - art-22/par-1/item-6: 第二十四条 → 民事執行法 第二十四条 (Article 24), art-24 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-24 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-24 - art-22/par-1/item-6-3: 仲裁法（平成十五年法律第百三十八号）第四十八条 → e-Gov law 415AC0000000138, 第四十八条 (Article 48), art-48 — not held in this collection - art-22/par-1/item-7: 第三号 → 民事執行法 第二十二条第一項第三号 (Article 22, paragraph (1), item (iii)), art-22/par-1/item-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-22/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-22/par-1/item-3 ## Cited by 15 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 労働組合法 第二十七条の十四第五項（和解） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-union-act/art-27-14/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000174/art-27-14/par-5 - 民事執行法 第十八条の二第一項第五号（記録事項証明書の提出等の省略） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-18-2/par-1/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-18-2/par-1/item-5 - 民事執行法 第二十二条第一項第七号（債務名義） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-22/par-1/item-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-22/par-1/item-7 - 民事執行法 第二十三条第一項第三号（強制執行をすることができる者の範囲） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-23/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-23/par-1/item-3 - 民事執行法 第三十三条第二項第一号（執行文付与の訴え） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-33/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-33/par-2/item-1 - 民事執行法 第三十三条第二項第一号の二（執行文付与の訴え） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-33/par-2/item-1-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-33/par-2/item-1-2 - 民事執行法 第三十三条第二項第一号の三（執行文付与の訴え） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-33/par-2/item-1-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-33/par-2/item-1-3 - 民事執行法 第三十三条第二項第二号（執行文付与の訴え） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-33/par-2/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-33/par-2/item-2 - 民事執行法 第三十三条第二項第三号（執行文付与の訴え） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-33/par-2/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-33/par-2/item-3 - 民事執行法 第三十三条第二項第四号（執行文付与の訴え） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-33/par-2/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-33/par-2/item-4 - 民事執行法 第三十三条第二項第五号（執行文付与の訴え） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-33/par-2/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-33/par-2/item-5 - 民事執行法 第三十三条第二項第六号（執行文付与の訴え） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-33/par-2/item-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-33/par-2/item-6 - 民事執行法 第三十五条第一項（請求異議の訴え） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-35/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-35/par-1 - 民事執行法 第三十九条第一項第三号（強制執行の停止） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-39/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-39/par-1/item-3 - 民事執行法 附則第四条第一項（民事執行法の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/suppl-4301-20/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/suppl-4301-20/art-4/par-1 --- ## Sources - claude-opus-5-5 — Corrections to the Ministry of Justice's English of paragraphs, written 2026-10-19 - 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 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Civil Enforcement Act (民事執行法), Article 22, paragraph (1), item (vii) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4900/tb), retrieved 2026-10-19 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch civil-enforcement-act-20261019T093630-001, 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