# 民法 / Civil Code — 第百六十二条 (Article 162) - 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: 第百六十二条 (Article 162)（所有権の取得時効） — address `art-162` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-162 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-162 - Every provision below carries its address and both URLs on the line under it. - Japanese text: e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁). English: as marked on each line below. Only the Japanese as published by the government has legal effect; the text below is a copy of it. Every English rendering below is a translation and says which kind: the Ministry of Justice's translation, or this site's machine translation, whose model and date the Sources list names. They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第百六十二条（所有権の取得時効） — (Acquisitive Prescription of Ownership) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-162 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-162 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-162 **第一項** 二十年間、所有の意思をもって、平穏に、かつ、公然と他人の物を占有した者は、その所有権を取得する。 art-162/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-162/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-162/par-1 A person that possesses the property of another for 20 years peacefully and openly with the intention to own it acquires its ownership. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 十年間、所有の意思をもって、平穏に、かつ、公然と他人の物を占有した者は、その占有の開始の時に、善意であり、かつ、過失がなかったときは、その所有権を取得する。 art-162/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-162/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-162/par-2 A person that possesses the property of another for 10 years peacefully and openly with an intention to own it acquires its ownership, if the person was acting in good faith and was not negligent at the time when the possession started. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 第百六十三条第一項（所有権以外の財産権の取得時効） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-163/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-163/par-1 - 民法 第百六十四条第一項（占有の中止等による取得時効の中断） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-164/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-164/par-1 --- ## 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 - This site's parser, version 190 — 民法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-11