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Article 27Burden of Costs

第二十七条(費用の負担)

The expenses required for the submission, delivery and custody of property (excluding expenses required by a person who possessed another person's thing by mistake) are borne by the person who lost the property and receives its return, or by a person who acquires ownership of the property under the provisions of Article 240 of the Civil Code (including the case where it applies mutatis mutandis under Article 3; the same applies hereinafter) or Article 241 of the Civil Code, or under the provisions of Article 32, paragraph (1), and takes it over.

物件の提出、交付及び保管に要した費用(誤って他人の物を占有した者が要した費用を除く。)は、当該物件の返還を受ける遺失者又は民法第二百四十条(第三条において準用する場合を含む。以下同じ。)若しくは第二百四十一条の規定若しくは第三十二条第一項の規定により当該物件の所有権を取得してこれを引き取る者の負担とする。

The provisions of Articles 295 through 302 of the Civil Code apply to the expenses referred to in the preceding paragraph.

前項の費用については、民法第二百九十五条から第三百二条までの規定を適用する。

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