déconfiture (English spelling)

Japanese: déconfiture(英語表記)deconfiture
déconfiture (English spelling)

...A system in which a court declares and publicly announces that a debtor who does not have the financial means to repay his debt even after forced execution is a dispossessor of the family property. Modeled on the French déconfiture system, it was enacted in the Family Property Disposal Law of 1890 and continued until it was abolished by the current Bankruptcy Law in 1922. The legislators' intention was to limit the subjects of family property dispersion to non-merchants, in response to the fact that the bankruptcy system at the time (promulgated in 1890, the old Commercial Code Bankruptcy Section, put into effect in 1893) limited the subjects of bankruptcy declarations to merchants (the so-called merchant bankruptcy principle), but in reality it was also applied to merchants. ...

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Japanese:

…強制執行をしてもその債務を弁済する資力のない債務者に対して,裁判所が家資分散者である旨を宣告し公示する制度。フランスのデコンフィチュールdéconfitureに倣い1890年の家資分散法により制定され1922年の現行破産法によって廃止されるまで行われた。家資分散の対象は,当時の破産制度(1890公布,1893施行の旧商法破産編)が破産宣告の対象を商人に限っていたこと(いわゆる商人破産主義)に対応して,こちらは非商人とするというのが立法者の考えであったようであるが,実際には商人についても行われた。…

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