标的物提存（place the subject matter in escrow）是指由于债权人的某些原因，导致没有办法交付合同标的物，债务人将标的物或者将标的物依法拍卖、变卖所得价款交付提存部门时，提存成立，提存成立的，视为债务人在其提存范围内已经交付标的物。此时，债务人将标的物交给提存的机关，债务消灭。

有下列情形之一，难以履行债务的，债务人可以将标的物提存：

（一）债权人无正当理由拒绝受领；

the creditor refuses to accept the performance without just course;

（二）债权人下落不明；

the creditor cannot be located;

（三）债权人死亡未确定继承人、遗产管理人，或者丧失民事行为能力未确定监护人；

the creditor dies with his heirs or estate administrator not determined, or the creditor loses his capacity for performing civil juristic acts with no guardian determined; or

（四）法律规定的其他情形。

any other circumstance as provided by law.

标的物不适于提存或者提存费用过高的，债务人依法可以拍卖或者变卖标的物，提存所得的价款。

相关双语法规：

《民法典》第五百七十二条：

标的物提存后，债务人应当及时通知债权人或者债权人的继承人、遗产管理人、监护人、财产代管人。

After a subject matter is placed in escrow, the debtor shall promptly notify the creditor or the creditor’s heir, estate administrator, guardian, or custodian for his property.

《民法典》第五百七十三条：

标的物提存后，毁损、灭失的风险由债权人承担。提存期间，标的物的孳息归债权人所有。提存费用由债权人负担。

After a subject matter is placed in escrow, the risk of destruction, damage, or loss thereof shall be assumed by the creditor. During the period the subject matter is placed in escrow, the accrued proceeds of the subject matter shall belong to the creditor. The expenses thus incurred shall be borne by the creditor.

《民法典》第五百七十四条：

债权人可以随时领取提存物。但是，债权人对债务人负有到期债务的，在债权人未履行债务或者提供担保之前，提存部门根据债务人的要求应当拒绝其领取提存物。

The creditor may collect the subject matter placed in escrow at any time, except that where the creditor owes due obligation to the debtor, the escrow agency shall reject the creditor’s request for collecting it before the creditor performs such obligation or providing security therefor.

债权人领取提存物的权利，自提存之日起五年内不行使而消灭，提存物扣除提存费用后归国家所有。但是，债权人未履行对债务人的到期债务，或者债权人向提存部门书面表示放弃领取提存物权利的，债务人负担提存费用后有权取回提存物。

The creditor’s right to collect the subject matter placed in escrow is extinguished if such right is not exercised within five years from the date the subject matter is delivered to the escrow agency, and such subject matter shall be escheated to the State after the escrow agency’s expenses are deducted. However, where a creditor fails to perform his due obligation to the debtor, or where the creditor waives his right to collect the subject matter placed in escrow in writing to the escrow agency, the debtor has the right to take back the subject matter after paying the escrow agency’s expenses.