# 民法 / Civil Code — 第二百一条 (Article 201) - 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: 第二百一条 (Article 201)（占有の訴えの提起期間） — address `art-201` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-201 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-201 - 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. --- ### 第二百一条（占有の訴えの提起期間） — (Periods of Time for Filing Possessory Actions) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-201 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-201 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-201 **第一項** 占有保持の訴えは、妨害の存する間又はその消滅した後一年以内に提起しなければならない。ただし、工事により占有物に損害を生じた場合において、その工事に着手した時から一年を経過し、又はその工事が完成したときは、これを提起することができない。 art-201/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-201/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-201/par-1 An action for maintenance of possession must be filed during the obstruction or within one year after the obstruction stops; provided, however, that if the thing under one's possession has been damaged due to construction work and either one year has passed from the time when the construction was started or the construction has been completed, the action may not be filed. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 占有保全の訴えは、妨害の危険の存する間は、提起することができる。この場合において、工事により占有物に損害を生ずるおそれがあるときは、前項ただし書の規定を準用する。 art-201/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-201/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-201/par-2 An action for preservation of possession may be filed so long as the danger of obstruction exists. In this case, the provisions of the proviso to the preceding paragraph apply mutatis mutandis if the thing under one's possession is likely to be damaged by the construction work. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 占有回収の訴えは、占有を奪われた時から一年以内に提起しなければならない。 art-201/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-201/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-201/par-3 An action for recovery of possession must be filed within one year from the time when a possessor was forcibly dispossessed. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-201/par-2: 前項 → 民法 第二百一条第一項 (Article 201, paragraph (1)), art-201/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-201/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-201/par-1 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 第百九十七条第一項（占有の訴え） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-197/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-197/par-1 - 民法 第二百一条第二項（占有の訴えの提起期間） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-201/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-201/par-2 --- ## 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