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登記官
A Ministry of Justice official (法務事務官) working at a registry office (登記所) whom the head of a Legal Affairs Bureau (法務局) or District Legal Affairs Bureau (地方法務局) designates to handle the registry office's business.
登記所に勤務する法務事務官のうちから、法務局又は地方法務局の長が指定する者
登記名義人
A person recorded in the rights section (権利部) of a registration record as the holder of one of the rights over real property that Article 3 lists.
登記記録の権利部に、次条各号に掲げる権利について権利者として記録されている者
The two or more points, and the straight lines joining them, that were taken to form the boundary between a parcel of land (一筆の土地) and the land next to it when the parcel was registered.
表題登記がある一筆の土地（以下単に「一筆の土地」という。）とこれに隣接する他の土地（表題登記がない土地を含む。以下同じ。）との間において、当該一筆の土地が登記された時にその境を構成するものとされた二以上の点及びこれらを結ぶ直線
Fixing, under Chapter VI, where the parcel boundary (筆界) between a parcel of land and the land next to it lies on the ground, or, where that cannot be fixed, the range within which it lies.
一筆の土地及びこれに隣接する他の土地について、この章の定めるところにより、筆界の現地における位置を特定すること（その位置を特定することができないときは、その位置の範囲を特定すること）
The part of a registration record (登記記録) in which registrations describing the property (表示に関する登記) are recorded.
登記記録のうち、表示に関する登記が記録される部分
Any matter that this Act requires to be registered as part of a registration record (登記記録).
この法律の規定により登記記録として登記すべき事項
A registration that changes a registered matter when that matter has changed.
登記事項に変更があった場合に当該登記事項を変更する登記
表題部所有者
The heading section owner under Article 2, item (x) of the Real Property Registration Act: the person recorded as owner in the heading section (表題部) of the registration record of real property that has no registration of ownership.
所有権の登記がない不動産の登記記録の表題部に、所有者として記録されている者
The Legal Affairs Bureau (法務局) or District Legal Affairs Bureau (地方法務局), or a branch or sub-branch office of one, with jurisdiction over the place where the real property is, which handles its registration.
権利に関する登記
A registration concerning one of the rights over real property that Article 3 lists, such as ownership, superficies (地上権) or a mortgage (抵当権).
不動産についての次条各号に掲げる権利に関する登記
The first registration describing a piece of real property (表示に関する登記) that is made in the heading section (表題部) of its registration record.
表示に関する登記のうち、当該不動産について表題部に最初にされる登記
区分建物
A structurally separate part of a single building that can be used on its own as a home, shop, office, warehouse or other building use and that is an exclusively owned part (専有部分) under Article 2(3) of the Act on Building Unit Ownership (Act No. 69 of 1962), including one made a common element (共用部分) under Article 4(2) of that Act.
一棟の建物の構造上区分された部分で独立して住居、店舗、事務所又は倉庫その他建物としての用途に供することができるものであって、建物の区分所有等に関する法律（昭和三十七年法律第六十九号。以下「区分所有法」という。）第二条第三項に規定する専有部分であるもの（区分所有法第四条第二項の規定により共用部分とされたものを含む。）
対象土地
In Chapter VI, the parcel of land and the adjoining land on either side of the parcel boundary (筆界) that a parcel boundary demarcation (筆界特定) is to fix.
筆界特定の対象となる筆界で相互に隣接する一筆の土地及び他の土地
The electronic record made under Article 12 for each parcel of land or each building, holding the registrations describing it and the registrations of rights over it.
表示に関する登記又は権利に関する登記について、一筆の土地又は一個の建物ごとに第十二条の規定により作成される電磁的記録（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る記録であって、電子計算機による情報処理の用に供されるものをいう。以下同じ。）
In Article 55, a registration of a right other than ownership, etc. (所有権等) that, under Article 73(1), has effect as a registration made on the right of site (敷地権).
所有権等の登記以外の権利に関する登記であって、第七十三条第一項の規定により敷地権についてされた登記としての効力を有するもの
The person who, by a registration of a right, directly gains an advantage as far as the register shows, not someone who gains only indirectly.
権利に関する登記をすることにより、登記上、直接に利益を受ける者をいい、間接に利益を受ける者を除く
The registered holder (登記名義人) who, by a registration of a right, directly suffers a disadvantage as far as the register shows, not one who suffers only indirectly.
権利に関する登記をすることにより、登記上、直接に不利益を受ける登記名義人をいい、間接に不利益を受ける登記名義人を除く
A registrar (登記官) whom the head of a Legal Affairs Bureau (法務局) or District Legal Affairs Bureau (地方法務局) designates to carry out parcel boundary demarcation (筆界特定).
登記官のうちから、法務局又は地方法務局の長が指定する者
登記簿
The register, prepared on magnetic disk or a similar medium able to record matters reliably, in which registration records (登記記録) are kept.
登記記録が記録される帳簿であって、磁気ディスク（これに準ずる方法により一定の事項を確実に記録することができる物を含む。以下同じ。）をもって調製するもの
共用部分
A part of a building that could be owned as a unit, or an annex building, that the owners' rules (規約) have made a shared part of the building (common element) under Article 4(2) of the Act on Building Unit Ownership.
区分所有法第四条第二項に規定する共用部分
The information a Cabinet Order (政令) specifies as needed to apply for a registration, such as the details identifying the real property, the applicant's name and the purpose of the registration, which the applicant must provide to the registry office (登記所) online or in writing.
A record made in electronic, magnetic or any other form people cannot perceive directly, for use in computer processing.
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る記録であって、電子計算機による情報処理の用に供されるもの
A building serving as an annex facility within a housing complex (団地), including a part of a building, that the complex's rules (規約) have made a common element of the complex under Article 67(1) of the Act on Building Unit Ownership.
区分所有法第六十七条第一項に規定する団地共用部分
A registration that corrects a registered matter where it was entered in error or something was left out.
登記事項に錯誤又は遺漏があった場合に当該登記事項を訂正する登記
A mortgage certificate (抵当証券) as referred to in Article 1(1) of the Mortgage Securities Act (Act No. 15 of 1931), which a person holding a mortgage (抵当権) over land, a building or superficies (地上権) may apply to the registry office (登記所) to have issued.
抵当証券法（昭和六年法律第十五号）第一条第一項に規定する抵当証券
表示に関する登記
A registration concerning the description of real property (不動産の表示), that is, the registered details that describe the land or building itself.
不動産の表示に関する登記
A registered right to use the site (敷地利用権, a right over the land of the building held in order to own a unit) of a condominium unit (区分建物) that, under the main clause of Article 22(1) of the Act on Building Unit Ownership (including as applied under paragraph (3) of that Article), may not be disposed of separately from the owner's unit.
The people a registrar for parcel boundary demarcation (筆界特定登記官) must notify of an application for parcel boundary demarcation (筆界特定): the registered owners or other owners (所有権登記名義人等) of the subject parcels (対象土地) other than the applicant, and those of the related parcels (関係土地).
A code or other information able to identify a registered holder (登記名義人), used to confirm that the registered holder is the one applying when they apply for a registration under the main clause of Article 22.
第二十二条本文の規定により登記名義人が登記を申請する場合において、当該登記名義人自らが当該登記を申請していることを確認するために用いられる符号その他の情報であって、登記名義人を識別することができるもの
In the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 123 of 2004, the Real Property Registration Act in the revised form that Act gave it, which is this Act.
The fact or legal act (法律行為) that gives rise to a registration.
登記の原因となる事実又は法律行為
In the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 123 of 2004, the Real Property Registration Act as it stood before that Act revised it.
附属建物
A building attached to a building with a heading registration (表題登記) and registered together with it as a single building.
表題登記がある建物に附属する建物であって、当該表題登記がある建物と一体のものとして一個の建物として登記されるもの
一筆の土地
From Article 123 onward, one parcel of land (一筆の土地, a single lot as registered) for which a heading registration (表題登記) has been made.
The number the registry office (登記所) gives each parcel of land under Article 35.
第三十五条の規定により一筆の土地ごとに付す番号
In Article 55, Article 73(1) and (3), Article 74(2) and Article 76(1), a condominium unit (区分建物) for which a right of site (敷地権) has been registered.
区分建物に関する敷地権の登記がある建物
This Act as amended by Article 1 of Act No. 29 of 2005.
In the supplementary provisions (附則) of the Act Partially Amending the Civil Code, etc. (Act No. 24 of 2021), the Real Property Registration Act (Act No. 123 of 2004) as amended by Article 2 of that Act, leaving out the amendments listed in the items of Article 1 of those supplementary provisions.
A category of land by its use, one of those set by the Ministry of Justice Order (法務省令) referred to in Article 34(2).
土地の用途による分類であって、第三十四条第二項の法務省令で定めるもの
A registration that, in the registration records, makes one building with a heading registration (表題登記) an annex building (附属建物) of another such building, or merges a condominium unit (区分建物) with an adjoining unit or its annex building into one building.
表題登記がある建物を登記記録上他の表題登記がある建物の附属建物とする登記又は表題登記がある区分建物を登記記録上これと接続する他の区分建物である表題登記がある建物若しくは附属建物に合併して一個の建物とする登記
In Chapter VI, the registered owner (所有権の登記名義人) of a parcel with a registration of ownership, the heading-section owner (表題部所有者) of a parcel without one, or the owner of land with no heading registration (表題登記), including the heir or other general successor of a registered owner or heading-section owner.
所有権の登記がある一筆の土地にあっては所有権の登記名義人、所有権の登記がない一筆の土地にあっては表題部所有者、表題登記がない土地にあっては所有者をいい、所有権の登記名義人又は表題部所有者の相続人その他の一般承継人を含む
The registered details that describe a piece of land or a building itself, such as its location, parcel number or building number, land category, area, and a building's type, structure and floor area, as listed in Article 27, items (i), (iii) and (iv), Article 34(1), Article 43(1), Article 44(1) and Article 58(1).
不動産についての第二十七条第一号、第三号若しくは第四号、第三十四条第一項各号、第四十三条第一項、第四十四条第一項各号又は第五十八条第一項各号に規定する登記事項
関係土地
Land other than the subject parcels (対象土地), including land with no heading registration (表題登記), that touches one or both of them along another parcel boundary (筆界) running from a point on the boundary being demarcated.
対象土地以外の土地（表題登記がない土地を含む。）であって、筆界特定の対象となる筆界上の点を含む他の筆界で対象土地の一方又は双方と接するもの
The area of one parcel of land, determined as the Ministry of Justice Order (法務省令) referred to in Article 34(2) provides.
一筆の土地の面積であって、第三十四条第二項の法務省令で定めるもの
所有権等
In the subsection of this Act on registrations describing buildings (Articles 44 to 58) and in Article 118(5), ownership, superficies (地上権), farming right (永小作権), servitude (地役権) and the right of quarrying (採石権).
所有権、地上権、永小作権、地役権及び採石権
In Article 3, Article 50, Article 70(2) and Article 82, the right of quarrying under the Quarrying Act (Act No. 291 of 1950), a right to take rock and gravel from another person's land as the act creating the right provides.
採石法（昭和二十五年法律第二百九十一号）に規定する採石権
Where two or more buildings have been joined into one, the heading registration (表題登記) of the combined building together with the cancellation of the heading-section (表題部) registrations of the buildings as they were before, which the persons Article 49(1) names must apply for within one month of the day they were joined.
In Article 74(1)(iii) and Article 118(1) and (3) to (5), expropriation (収用), the taking of property under the Expropriation of Land Act (Act No. 219 of 1951) or another Act.
土地収用法（昭和二十六年法律第二百十九号）その他の法律の規定による収用
A registration of a right made after a provisional registration (仮登記), for the same right over the same real property, and recorded in that property's registration record as based on the provisional registration.
仮登記がされた後、これと同一の不動産についてされる同一の権利についての権利に関する登記であって、当該不動産に係る登記記録に当該仮登記に基づく登記であることが記録されているもの
The record of a parcel boundary demarcation (筆界特定) procedure once the applicant has been notified of the result under Article 144(1), kept at the registry office (登記所) with jurisdiction over where the subject parcels (対象土地) are.
手続費用
In Article 146, the costs of a parcel boundary demarcation (筆界特定) procedure that a Ministry of Justice Order (法務省令) specifies, such as the cost of surveying, which the applicant bears.
In Article 3 of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 123 of 2004, the electronic data processing system referred to in Article 151-2(1) of the Real Property Registration Act as it stood before that Act (旧法).
旧法第百五十一条ノ二第一項の電子情報処理組織
In Article 2(1) of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 29 of 2005, a procedure for parcel boundary demarcation (筆界特定) under Chapter VI, Section 2 of this Act as amended by that Act.
新不動産登記法第六章第二節の規定による筆界特定の手続
The part of a registration record (登記記録) in which registrations of rights (権利に関する登記) are recorded.
登記記録のうち、権利に関する登記が記録される部分
家屋番号
The number the registry office (登記所) gives each building under Article 45.
第四十五条の規定により一個の建物ごとに付す番号
Short name for the Act on Building Unit Ownership (Act No. 69 of 1962).
代位者
A person who applied for a registration in another person's place under Article 423 of the Civil Code or another law or regulation (法令); a registration of a right records this person's name and address and the cause of the subrogation.
In Article 73, a general statutory lien (一般の先取特権), a pledge (質権) or a mortgage (抵当権).
一般の先取特権、質権又は抵当権
A mortgage (抵当権) under Article 398-2(1) of the Civil Code, which Article 88 sets apart from other mortgages when it lists what a mortgage registration records.
民法第三百九十八条の二第一項の規定による抵当権
A provisional registration (仮登記) made, together with a registration prohibiting disposal (処分禁止の登記), to carry out a provisional disposition (仮処分) protecting a claim to have the preservation, creation or change of a right other than ownership over real property registered, as defined in Article 53(2) of the Civil Provisional Remedies Act (Act No. 91 of 1989).
A certificate of all or part of what a registration record (登記記録) contains, which anyone may obtain from a registrar (登記官) on paying a fee.
In the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 24 of 2021, the Real Property Registration Act (Act No. 123 of 2004) as amended by Article 2 of that Act, counting only the amendments listed in Article 1, item (ii) of those supplementary provisions.
第二号施行日
The date the amendments listed in Article 1, item (ii) of the supplementary provisions (附則) of the Act Partially Amending the Civil Code, etc. (Act No. 24 of 2021) come into effect: a date a Cabinet Order (政令) sets, within three years of the day that Act was promulgated (公布), 28 April 2021.
第二号施行日
The date the amendments listed in Article 1, item (ii) of the supplementary provisions (附則) of the Act Partially Amending the Civil Code, etc. (Act No. 24 of 2021) come into effect: a date a Cabinet Order (政令) sets, within three years of the day that Act was promulgated (公布), 28 April 2021.
In Article 3(1), Article 4(2) and Article 105, item (i), the preservation (保存), creation, transfer, change, restriction on disposal or extinguishment of one of the rights over real property that Article 3 lists, such as ownership or a mortgage (抵当権).
保存、設定、移転、変更、処分の制限又は消滅
An area, set by the registry office (登記所) as a Ministry of Justice Order (法務省令) provides, within which it gives each parcel of land a parcel number (地番); used in Article 39(2) and Article 41, item (ii).
A registration that takes an annex building (附属建物) out of the registration record of the building with a heading registration (表題登記) it belongs to, so that in the records it becomes a separate building.
表題登記がある建物の附属建物を当該表題登記がある建物の登記記録から分割して登記記録上別の一個の建物とする登記
A registration that turns a part of a building with a heading registration (表題登記), or of its annex building (附属建物), that qualifies as a condominium unit (区分建物) into a condominium unit in the registration records.
表題登記がある建物又は附属建物の部分であって区分建物に該当するものを登記記録上区分建物とする登記
In Article 73, the case in which a unit owner may not dispose of their unit (専有部分) separately from the right to use the site (敷地利用権) that goes with it, under the main clause of Article 22(1) of the Act on Building Unit Ownership (including as applied under paragraph (3) of that Article), which bars this where the right to use the site is ownership or another right held by several people.
In Article 80, servient land as referred to in Article 285(1) of the Civil Code: the land on which a servitude (地役権) is registered.
民法第二百八十五条第一項に規定する承役地
In Article 80, dominant land as referred to in Article 281(1) of the Civil Code, which must be recorded when a servitude (地役権) is registered on servient land (承役地).
民法第二百八十一条第一項に規定する要役地
In Article 119-2, a certificate that anyone may request from a registrar (登記官) on paying a fee, showing the matters a Ministry of Justice Order (法務省令) sets from the registration records of the real property in which the requester is recorded as registered owner, or as someone the Order treats as one, or stating that there is no such record.
In Article 120, a map, a building location map (建物所在図) or a drawing equivalent to a map, of which anyone may ask a registrar (登記官) for a copy on paying a fee.
登記簿等
In Articles 154 and 155, the register (登記簿), maps, building location maps (建物所在図) and drawings equivalent to maps, and the documents annexed to the register.
The information an application for parcel boundary demarcation (筆界特定) must provide on the matters Article 131(3) lists: what is applied for, the applicant's name and address, the location and parcel number of the subject parcels (対象土地), why demarcation is needed, and matters a Ministry of Justice Order (法務省令) sets.
In Article 137, a parcel boundary examiner (筆界調査委員), or a staff member assisting one under Article 134(4), whom the head of a Legal Affairs Bureau (法務局) or District Legal Affairs Bureau (地方法務局) may have enter other people's land.
In Article 149 and Article 154, all or part of the written report of parcel boundary demarcation (筆界特定書), or of a drawing a Cabinet Order (政令) specifies, in a parcel boundary demarcation procedure record, of which anyone may ask a registrar (登記官) for a copy on paying a fee.
The date the amendments listed in Article 1, item (iii) of the supplementary provisions (附則) of the Act Partially Amending the Civil Code, etc. (Act No. 24 of 2021) come into effect: a date a Cabinet Order (政令) sets, within five years of the day that Act was promulgated (公布), 28 April 2021.
In Article 4(2) and Article 66, a registration of a right made on top of an existing registration of a right and shown to the public as one with it, to change or correct that registration or, for a right other than ownership, to transfer it or to register the preservation, creation or other change (保存等) of a right over it.
権利に関する登記のうち、既にされた権利に関する登記についてする登記であって、当該既にされた権利に関する登記を変更し、若しくは更正し、又は所有権以外の権利にあってはこれを移転し、若しくはこれを目的とする権利の保存等をするもので当該既にされた権利に関する登記と一体のものとして公示する必要があるもの
In Article 4(2), the existing registration of a right (権利に関する登記) to which a supplemental registration (付記登記) is attached; the supplemental registration ranks by its priority.
付記登記の対象となる既にされた権利に関する登記
In Article 73(1)(i), the purpose of a registration, the date its application was received and its receipt number, and the cause of registration (登記原因) and its date.
登記の目的、申請の受付の年月日及び受付番号並びに登記原因及びその日付
In Article 5(7) of the supplementary provisions (附則) of the Act Partially Amending the Civil Code, etc. (Act No. 24 of 2021), the Real Property Registration Act (Act No. 123 of 2004) as amended by Article 2 of that Act, counting only the amendments listed in Article 1, item (iii) of those supplementary provisions.
Short name for the Act Partially Amending the Civil Code, etc. (Act No. 45 of 2026).