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物件
Lost property (遺失物), buried property (埋蔵物) and quasi-lost property (準遺失物): someone else's things taken by mistake, things another person has left behind, and escaped livestock.
遺失物及び埋蔵物並びに準遺失物（誤って占有した他人の物、他人の置き去った物及び逸走した家畜をいう。次条において同じ。）
The person who was in possession (占有) of the property (物件), together with its owner or anyone else who has a right to claim it back, where that is someone other than that person.
物件の占有をしていた者（他に所有者その他の当該物件の回復の請求権を有する者があるときは、その者を含む。）
An occupant (施設占有者) of a facility used by many unspecified people that is among those a Cabinet Order (政令) designates as receiving or finding large numbers of items of property (物件) and able to store them properly; Article 17 lets it, on conditions, notify the chief of a police station (警察署長) and keep such property itself instead of handing it in.
拾得者
A person who has found (拾得) property (物件), in the sense this Act gives to finding.
物件の拾得をした者
拾得
Taking possession (占有) of property (物件), or, for buried property (埋蔵物) and things another person has left behind, discovering it.
物件の占有を始めること（埋蔵物及び他人の置き去った物にあっては、これを発見すること）
施設占有者
The occupant (占有者), that is, the one in possession, of a facility (施設).
施設の占有者
Property (物件) that a special-case facility occupant (特例施設占有者) keeps in its own custody under the second sentence of Article 17, having notified the chief of a police station (警察署長) of it instead of handing it in.
交付
A finder's (拾得者) handing over of property (物件), other than buried property, found in a facility (施設) to that facility's occupant (施設占有者), as Article 4, paragraph (2) requires; the word has this meaning from Article 15 to Article 34.
A finder's (拾得者) handing in of found property (物件) to the chief of a police station (警察署長) under Article 4, paragraph (1).
The public notice that Article 7, paragraph (1) requires the chief of a police station (警察署長) to give of the type and features of property (物件) handed in, and of the date, time and place it was found, when the person who lost it (遺失者), or where that person is, cannot be found.
A record made in electronic, magnetic or any other form that people cannot perceive with their senses.
電子的方式、磁気的方式その他人の知覚によっては認識することができない方式で作られた記録
売却
A sale by a special-case facility occupant (特例施設占有者), under Article 20, paragraph (1) or (2), of property in its custody (保管物件), in the cases those paragraphs allow; the word has this meaning in Article 20 and Article 21, paragraph (1).
施設
A building or other facility, including vehicles, ships, aircraft and other mobile facilities, where a person in charge of managing it is stationed.
建築物その他の施設（車両、船舶、航空機その他の移動施設を含む。）であって、その管理に当たる者が常駐するもの
売却
A sale by the chief of a police station (警察署長), under Article 9, paragraph (1) or (2), of property (物件) handed in to them, in the cases those paragraphs allow; the word has this meaning in Articles 9 and 10.
氏名等
The name of a person, or of a corporation or other organisation, together with the person's address or the organisation's location, here those of a finder (拾得者) or of a person who lost property (遺失者).
A Prefectural Public Safety Commission (都道府県公安委員会), the body in each prefecture (都道府県) that administers that prefecture's police.
Someone else's thing taken into possession by mistake, a thing another person has left behind, or livestock that has escaped.
誤って占有した他人の物、他人の置き去った物及び逸走した家畜
The Superintendent General (警視総監), who heads the police of Tokyo, or the chief of the police headquarters of any other prefecture (道府県警察本部長).
代理人等
An agent, employee or other worker of a facility occupant (施設占有者) or of a special-case facility occupant (特例施設占有者).
The Lost Property Act (Act No. 87 of 1899) as it stood before this Act (Act No. 73 of 2006) replaced it in full.