# 民法 / Civil Code — 第千四十条 (Article 1040)

- 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: 第千四十条 (Article 1040)（居住建物の返還等） — address `art-1040`
- Text in force since: 2026-06-24
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### 第千四十条（居住建物の返還等） — Return of the Building of Residence, etc.
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>art-1040 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-1040 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-1040</sup>

    **第一項**  配偶者は、前条に規定する場合を除き、配偶者短期居住権が消滅したときは、居住建物の返還をしなければならない。ただし、配偶者が居住建物について共有持分を有する場合は、居住建物取得者は、配偶者短期居住権が消滅したことを理由としては、居住建物の返還を求めることができない。
    <sup>art-1040/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-1040/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-1040/par-1</sup>
    Except in the case prescribed in the preceding Article, when the spouse's short-term right of residence is extinguished, the spouse must return the building of residence; provided, however, that if the spouse holds a co-ownership interest in the building of residence, the acquirer of the building of residence may not demand the return of the building of residence on the grounds that the spouse's short-term right of residence has been extinguished.
    <sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

    **第二項**  第五百九十九条第一項及び第二項並びに第六百二十一条の規定は、前項本文の規定により配偶者が相続の開始後に附属させた物がある居住建物又は相続の開始後に生じた損傷がある居住建物の返還をする場合について準用する。
    <sup>art-1040/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-1040/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-1040/par-2</sup>
    The provisions of Article 599, paragraphs (1) and (2) and Article 621 apply mutatis mutandis where, pursuant to the main clause of the preceding paragraph, the spouse returns a building of residence to which the spouse has attached something after the opening of the succession or a building of residence that has sustained damage arising after the opening of the succession.
    <sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- art-1040/par-1: 前条 → 民法 第千三十九条 (Article 1039), art-1039 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-1039 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-1039
- art-1040/par-2: 第五百九十九条第一項 → 民法 第五百九十九条第一項 (Article 599, paragraph (1)), art-599/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-599/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-599/par-1
- art-1040/par-2: 第二項 → 民法 第五百九十九条第二項 (Article 599, paragraph (2)), art-599/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-599/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-599/par-2
- art-1040/par-2: 第六百二十一条 → 民法 第六百二十一条 (Article 621), art-621 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-621 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-621
- art-1040/par-2: 前項 → 民法 第千四十条第一項 (Article 1040, paragraph (1)), art-1040/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-1040/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-1040/par-1

## Cited by

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

- 民法 第千四十条第二項（居住建物の返還等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-1040/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-1040/par-2
- 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

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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-20261011T170941-010, translated 2026-10-12
- This site's parser, version 190 — 民法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-11