# 民事執行法 / Civil Enforcement Act — 第二十五条 (Article 25) - 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: 第二十五条 (Article 25)（強制執行の実施） — address `art-25` - Text in force since: 2026-05-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-25 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-25 - 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. --- ### 第二十五条（強制執行の実施） — (Implementing Judicial Enforcement) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-25 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-25 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-25 **第一項** 強制執行は、執行文の付された債務名義の正本（債務名義に係る電磁的記録がファイルに記録されたものである場合にあつては記録事項証明書、債務名義が電磁的記録をもつて作成された執行証書である場合にあつては公証人法（明治四十一年法律第五十三号）第四十四条第一項第二号の書面又は同項第三号の電磁的記録。以下同じ。）に基づいて実施する。ただし、少額訴訟における確定判決又は仮執行の宣言を付した少額訴訟の判決若しくは支払督促により、これに表示された当事者に対し、又はその者のためにする強制執行は、その債務名義の正本に基づいて実施する。 art-25/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-25/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-25/par-1 Judicial enforcement is implemented on the basis of an authenticated copy of the title of obligation bearing an attestation of enforceability (if the electronic or magnetic record related to a title of obligation is recorded in a file, then a certificate of recorded information, and if a title of obligation is a notarial instrument authorizing enforcement prepared as an electronic or magnetic record, then a document prescribed in Article 44, paragraph (1), item (ii) of the Notary Act (Act No. 53 of 1908) or electronic or magnetic record prescribed in item (iii) of that paragraph; the same applies below); provided, however, that judicial enforcement for or against an indicated party based on a final and binding judgment in a small claims action or based on a judgment in a small claims action or demand for payment bearing a declaration of provisional enforcement is implemented on the basis of an authenticated copy of that title of obligation. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-25/par-1: 公証人法（明治四十一年法律第五十三号）第四十四条第一項第二号 → e-Gov law 141AC0000000053, 第四十四条第一項第二号 (Article 44, paragraph (1), item (ii)), art-44/par-1/item-2 — not held in this collection - art-25/par-1: 同項第三号 → e-Gov law 141AC0000000053, 第四十四条第一項第三号 (Article 44, paragraph (1), item (iii)), art-44/par-1/item-3 — not held in this collection ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民事執行法 第五十一条第一項（配当要求） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-51/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-51/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