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Article 204Grounds for Extinction of Agent's Possessory Rights

第二百四条(代理占有権の消滅事由)

If a person possesses a thing through an agent, possessory rights are extinguished on the grounds stated below:

代理人によって占有をする場合には、占有権は、次に掲げる事由によって消滅する。

renunciation by the principal of intention to have agent possess;

本人が代理人に占有をさせる意思を放棄したこと。

manifestation of intention to the principal of an agent to hold the thing possessed on behalf of the agent itself or a third party; or

代理人が本人に対して以後自己又は第三者のために占有物を所持する意思を表示したこと。

the agent has lost direct control over the thing possessed.

代理人が占有物の所持を失ったこと。

Possessory rights are not extinguished solely as a result of the extinction of the authority to represent.

占有権は、代理権の消滅のみによっては、消滅しない。

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