Confiscation under the provisions of Article 198-2, paragraph (1) is limited to the case in which the illegal property or the mixed property does not belong to any person other than the perpetrator; provided, however, that if a person other than the perpetrator acquires the illegal property or the mixed property by coming to know the circumstances of the crime after the crime has been committed (excluding the case in which property that has been provided as performance of legal obligation has been received or the case in which property that has been provided as performance of obligation related to a contract (limited to a contract under which the creditor is to provide a considerable amount of economic benefit) that has been concluded without knowing that obligations under the contract are to be performed by illegal property or mixed property, at the time of concluding the contract), the illegal property or mixed property may be confiscated even when the property belongs to a person other than the perpetrator.
第百九十八条の二第一項の規定による没収は、不法財産又は混和財産が犯人以外の者に帰属しない場合に限る。ただし、犯人以外の者が、犯罪の後情を知つて当該不法財産又は混和財産を取得した場合（法令上の義務の履行として提供されたものを収受した場合又は契約（債権者において相当の財産上の利益を提供すべきものに限る。）の時に当該契約に係る債務の履行が不法財産若しくは混和財産によつて行われることの情を知らないでした当該契約に係る債務の履行として提供されたものを収受した場合を除く。）は、当該不法財産又は混和財産が犯人以外の者に帰属する場合であつても、これを没収することができる。
If property on which a superficies right, a mortgage, or any other right exists is to be confiscated pursuant to the provisions of Article 198-2, paragraph (1) or Article 200-2, and a person other than the perpetrator has acquired the right before the crime or a person other than the perpetrator acquires the right after the crime without knowledge of the circumstances, the right is to be kept in existence.
地上権、抵当権その他の権利がその上に存在する財産を第百九十八条の二第一項又は第二百条の二の規定により没収する場合において、犯人以外の者が犯罪の前に当該権利を取得したとき、又は犯人以外の者が犯罪の後情を知らないで当該権利を取得したときは、これを存続させるものとする。
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The following property is to be confiscated; provided, however, that if it is not appropriate to confiscate all or part of the property in light of the circumstances of its acquisition…
次に掲げる財産は、没収する。ただし、その取得の状況、損害賠償の履行の状況その他の事情に照らし、当該財産の全部又は一部を没収することが相当でないときは、これを没収しないことができる。
Open this provisionIn the case referred to in item (xiv) of the preceding Article, any economic benefit received by the perpetrator or a third party with knowledge of the circumstances is to be confiscated.
前条第十四号の場合において、犯人又は情を知つた第三者が受けた財産上の利益は、没収する。その全部又は一部を没収することができないときは、その価額を追徴する。
Open this provisionillegal property
「不法財産」
In Article 209-2, Article 209-3, paragraph (1) and Article 209-4, paragraph (1), property to be confiscated under Article 198-2, paragraph (1) or Article 200-2.
Short name set inArticle 209-2, paragraph (1)· applies only in this article and in Article 209-3, paragraph (1); and Article 209-4, paragraph (1)
mixed property
「混和財産」
In Article 209-2, paragraph (2) and Article 209-3, paragraph (1), property that results when illegal property (不法財産) that is to be confiscated is mixed with other property.
Short name set inArticle 209-2, paragraph (1)· applies only in this provision and in Article 209-2, paragraph (2); and Article 209-3, paragraph (1)
confiscation
没収
A punishment that can only be added to a principal one (付加刑) (Penal Code, Article 9): a thing connected with the crime is confiscated. What may be confiscated is the thing that makes up the crime, a thing used or meant to be used for it, a thing it produced or gained or that was received as a reward for it, and what was received in exchange for such a thing (Article 19, paragraph (1)); only a thing belonging to no one but the offender, unless someone else acquired it after the crime knowing the facts (paragraph (2)). For a crime punishable only by penal detention (拘留) or a petty fine (科料), only the thing that makes up the crime may be confiscated, unless a special provision says otherwise (Article 20). Where a thing gained by the crime cannot be confiscated, its value may be collected instead (追徴) (Article 19-2).
Written by AI using Penal Code, Arts. 9, 19, 19-2, 20 as a reference.
superficies
地上権
A right to use another person's land in order to own buildings or other structures, or trees or bamboo, on it (Civil Code, Article 265). It can be entered in the land register (Real Property Registration Act, Article 3, item (ii)). The Act on Land and Building Leases counts a superficies held in order to own a building as a land leasehold right (借地権), just as it counts a lease of land for that purpose (Article 2, item (i)).
Written by AI using Civil Code, Art. 265, Real Property Registration Act, Art. 3 and Act on Land and Building Leases, Art. 2 as a reference.