# 民法 / Civil Code — 第千三十一条 (Article 1031)

- Law: 民法 (Civil Code), 明治二十九年法律第八十九号
- English title "Civil Code": Ministry of Justice translation
- Kind: Act — the distinction between 法律 (Act), 政令 (Cabinet Order), 省令 (Ministerial Order) and 条例 (local ordinance) decides who may issue it and what it may say.
- Provision: 第千三十一条 (Article 1031)（配偶者居住権の登記等） — address `art-1031`
- Text in force since: 2026-06-24
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### 第千三十一条（配偶者居住権の登記等） — Registration, etc. of Spouse's Right of Residence
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>art-1031 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-1031 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-1031</sup>

    **第一項**  居住建物の所有者は、配偶者（配偶者居住権を取得した配偶者に限る。以下この節において同じ。）に対し、配偶者居住権の設定の登記を備えさせる義務を負う。
    <sup>art-1031/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-1031/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-1031/par-1</sup>
    The owner of the building of residence is under an obligation to cause the spouse (limited to a spouse who has acquired the spouse's right of residence; the same applies hereinafter in this Section) to obtain registration of the establishment of the spouse's right of residence.
    <sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

    **第二項**  第六百五条の規定は配偶者居住権について、第六百五条の四の規定は配偶者居住権の設定の登記を備えた場合について準用する。
    <sup>art-1031/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-1031/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-1031/par-2</sup>
    The provisions of Article 605 apply mutatis mutandis to the spouse's right of residence, and the provisions of Article 605-4 apply mutatis mutandis to the case where registration of the establishment of the spouse's right of residence has been obtained.
    <sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- art-1031/par-2: 第六百五条 → 民法 第六百五条 (Article 605), art-605 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-605 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-605
- art-1031/par-2: 第六百五条の四 → 民法 第六百五条の四 (Article 605-4), art-605-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-605-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-605-4

## Cited by

2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 民法 附則第十条第一項（配偶者の居住の権利に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/suppl-4301-72/art-10/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-4301-72/art-10/par-1
- 民法 附則第十条第二項（配偶者の居住の権利に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/suppl-4301-72/art-10/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-4301-72/art-10/par-2

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## Sources

- e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 民法 — the text in force from 2026-06-24 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/129AC0000000089/20260624_508AC0000000045), retrieved 2026-10-11
- Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Civil Code — Ministry of Justice translation (part 1 of 2) (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4848/tb), retrieved 2026-10-11
- claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch civil-code-20261011T170941-008, translated 2026-10-12
- claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch civil-code-20261011T170941-009, translated 2026-10-12
- This site's parser, version 190 — 民法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-11