# 民法 / Civil Code — 第二百十三条 (Article 213) - 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: 第二百十三条 (Article 213) — address `art-213` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-213 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-213 - 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. --- ### 第二百十三条 art-213 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-213 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-213 **第一項** 分割によって公道に通じない土地が生じたときは、その土地の所有者は、公道に至るため、他の分割者の所有地のみを通行することができる。この場合においては、償金を支払うことを要しない。 art-213/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-213/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-213/par-1 If the partition of land creates a parcel of land that has no access to public roads, the owner of that parcel of land may pass to the public roads only through the lands owned by another person that participated in the partition. In this case, it is necessary to pay compensation. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の規定は、土地の所有者がその土地の一部を譲り渡した場合について準用する。 art-213/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-213/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-213/par-2 The provisions of the preceding paragraph apply mutatis mutandis if the owner of land transfers part of the land to another person. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-213/par-2: 前項 → 民法 第二百十三条第一項 (Article 213, paragraph (1)), art-213/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-213/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-213/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 第二百十三条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-213/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-213/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