# 民事執行法 / Civil Enforcement Act — 第三十八条 (Article 38) - 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: 第三十八条 (Article 38)（第三者異議の訴え） — address `art-38` - Text in force since: 2026-05-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-38 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-38 - 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. --- ### 第三十八条（第三者異議の訴え） — (Third-Party Actions Opposing Enforcement) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-38 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-38 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-38 **第一項** 強制執行の目的物について所有権その他目的物の譲渡又は引渡しを妨げる権利を有する第三者は、債権者に対し、その強制執行の不許を求めるために、第三者異議の訴えを提起することができる。 art-38/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-38/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-38/par-1 A third party who has ownership of the subject matter of judicial enforcement or any other right that obstructs assignment or delivery of the subject matter may file, against the obligee, a third-party action opposing enforcement to call for the court to disallow enforcement. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項に規定する第三者は、同項の訴えに併合して、債務者に対する強制執行の目的物についての訴えを提起することができる。 art-38/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-38/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-38/par-2 The third party prescribed in the preceding paragraph may file an action against the obligor regarding the subject matter of judicial enforcement, in consolidation with the action referred to in that paragraph. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 第一項の訴えは、執行裁判所が管轄する。 art-38/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-38/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-38/par-3 The action referred to in paragraph (1) is under the jurisdiction of the enforcement court. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第四項** 前二条の規定は、第一項の訴えに係る執行停止の裁判について準用する。 art-38/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-38/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-38/par-4 The provisions of the preceding two Articles apply mutatis mutandis to a judicial decision to stay enforcement in connection with the action referred to in paragraph (1). Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "The provisions of the preceding two paragraphs apply mutatis mutandis pursuant to a judicial decision to stay enforcement in connection with the action referred to in paragraph (1)." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4900/tb --- ## Cites - art-38/par-2: 前項 → 民事執行法 第三十八条第一項 (Article 38, paragraph (1)), art-38/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-38/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-38/par-1 - art-38/par-3: 第一項 → 民事執行法 第三十八条第一項 (Article 38, paragraph (1)), art-38/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-38/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-38/par-1 - art-38/par-4: 前二条 → 民事執行法 第三十六条 (Article 36), art-36 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-36 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-36 - art-38/par-4: 前二条 → 民事執行法 第三十七条 (Article 37), art-37 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-37 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-37 - art-38/par-4: 第一項 → 民事執行法 第三十八条第一項 (Article 38, paragraph (1)), art-38/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-38/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-38/par-1 ## Cited by 6 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民事執行法 第三十八条第二項（第三者異議の訴え） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-38/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-38/par-2 - 民事執行法 第三十八条第三項（第三者異議の訴え） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-38/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-38/par-3 - 民事執行法 第三十八条第四項（第三者異議の訴え） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-38/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-38/par-4 - 民事執行法 第百六十七条の七第一項（第三者異議の訴えの管轄裁判所） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-167-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-167-7/par-1 - 民事執行法 第百六十八条の二第七項（明渡しの催告） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-168-2/par-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-168-2/par-7 - 民事執行法 第百九十四条第一項（担保権の実行についての強制執行の総則規定の準用） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-194/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-194/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 38, paragraph (4) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (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