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賃貸借(ちんたいしゃく)

A contract in which one party, the lessor (賃貸人), agrees to let the other use a thing and take what it yields, and the other party, the lessee (賃借人), agrees to pay rent for it and t…

Written by AI using Civil Code, Arts. 601, 616-2, 620 and Act on Land and Building Leases, Art. 1 as a reference.

公正証書(こうせいしょうしょ)

A document drawn up by a notary (公証人), a public officer appointed by the Minister of Justice, at the request of the people concerned (Notary Act, Articles 1 and 11). A notary will…

Written by AI using Notary Act, Arts. 1, 11, 26 and Act on Land and Building Leases, Arts. 22, 23, 38 as a reference.

賃借権(ちんしゃくけん)

The right a lessee (賃借人) has under a lease (賃貸借): to use the leased thing and take what it yields, in return for paying rent (Civil Code, Article 601). The lessee may not transfer…

Written by AI using Civil Code, Arts. 601, 605, 612, Real Property Registration Act, Art. 3 and Act on Land and Building Leases, Arts. 10, 31 as a reference.

賃貸人(ちんたいにん)

The party to a lease (賃貸借) who lets the other party use a thing, such as land or a building, in return for rent; in everyday words, the landlord (Civil Code, Article 601). The less…

Written by AI using Civil Code, Arts. 601, 612 as a reference.

賃借人(ちんしゃくにん)

The party to a lease (賃貸借) who uses a thing, such as land or a building, pays rent for it and must return it when the contract ends; in everyday words, the tenant (Civil Code, Arti…

Written by AI using Civil Code, Arts. 601, 612 as a reference.

転借人(てんしゃくにん)

A person who leases a thing from its lessee (賃借人) rather than from the lessor (賃貸人): a subtenant. Where the lessee has sublet lawfully, the sublessee owes its duties under the subl…

Written by AI using Civil Code, Art. 613 as a reference.

先取特権(さきどりとっけん)

A right the law itself gives certain creditors to be paid out of the debtor's property ahead of other creditors (Civil Code, Article 303). Some reach all of the debtor's property,…

Written by AI using Civil Code, Arts. 303, 306, 311, 312, 313 and Act on Land and Building Leases, Art. 12 as a reference.

対抗(たいこう)

To be able to rely on a right, or on a fact about it, against someone who is not a party to it. Acquiring, losing or changing a right in rem (物権) in land or a building cannot be as…

Written by AI using Civil Code, Arts. 96, 177, 605 and Act on Land and Building Leases, Arts. 10, 31 as a reference.

解除(かいじょ)

Ending a contract by one party's notice to the other, where the contract or the law gives that party a right to cancel (Civil Code, Article 540, paragraph (1)). The Civil Code lets…

Written by AI using Civil Code, Arts. 121, 540, 541, 542, 545, 620 as a reference.

rental transaction

賃貸借取引(ちんたいしゃくとりひき)

In Article 53(1), a lease of an asset (資産の賃貸借) other than a lease transaction (リース取引) as defined in Article 64-2(3).

lease transaction without transfer of ownership

所有権移転外リース取引(しょゆうけんいてんがいりーすとりひき)

A lease transaction (リース取引) as defined in Article 67-2, paragraph (3) of the Income Tax Act — in Article 42-6, Article 64-2, paragraph (3) of the Corporation Tax Act — that a Cabinet Order (政令) sets as one under which ownership does not pass.

法人税法第六十四条の二第三項に規定するリース取引のうち所有権が移転しないものとして政令で定めるもの

residence

住宅(じゅうたく)

A building (家屋) that has the facilities, such as a kitchen, bathroom, toilet and washbasin, that an Order of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism and the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (国土交通省令・厚生労働省令) sets as needed for living in it, and that is of a kind the same Order treats as used for people to live in, such as one someone lives in now or one being advertised to new tenants after the previous tenant's lease ended.

次の各号に掲げる要件のいずれにも該当する家屋

security deposit

敷金(しききん)

Money, whatever it is called, that a lessee (賃借人) gives the lessor (賃貸人) to secure the rent and the lessee's other money obligations to the lessor arising from the lease (賃貸借).

いかなる名目によるかを問わず、賃料債務その他の賃貸借に基づいて生ずる賃借人の賃貸人に対する金銭の給付を目的とする債務を担保する目的で、賃借人が賃貸人に交付する金銭

lease assets

リース資産(りーすしさん)

The asset that is the subject of a lease transaction, which this paragraph treats as sold by the lessor to the lessee at the moment it is handed over.

notice period

通知期間(つうちきかん)

For a fixed-term building lease agreed not to be renewed under Article 38, paragraph (1), and running for one year or more, the period from one year to six months before the term ends, in which the lessor is to tell the lessee that the lease will end when its term expires.

mortgaged building user

抵当建物使用者(ていとうたてものしようしゃ)

In Article 395, paragraph (2), a person who uses or takes profits from a mortgaged building under a lease (賃貸借) that cannot be asserted against the mortgagee, and who either did so from before the auction procedure began or does so under a lease made after it began by the administrator in compulsory administration (強制管理) or in enforcement against earnings from secured immovable property (担保不動産収益執行).

lease transaction

リース取引(りーすとりひき)

A lease transaction (リース取引) as defined in Article 64-2, paragraph 3 of the Corporation Tax Act: a lease of an asset, other than a land lease without transfer of ownership or another lease a Cabinet Order (政令) excludes, that cannot be cancelled during its term (or is treated as such) and under which the lessee substantially enjoys the asset's economic benefits and bears the costs of using it.