# 民法 / Civil Code — 第二百四十四条 (Article 244) - 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: 第二百四十四条 (Article 244) — address `art-244` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-244 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-244 - 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. --- ### 第二百四十四条 art-244 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-244 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-244 **第一項** 付合した動産について主従の区別をすることができないときは、各動産の所有者は、その付合の時における価格の割合に応じてその合成物を共有する。 art-244/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-244/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-244/par-1 If the distinction of principal and accessory cannot be made between the movables united by accession, the owner of each movable property co-owns the composite thing in proportion to the respective price current at the time of the accession. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 第二百四十五条第一項（混和） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-245/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-245/par-1 - 民法 第二百四十七条第一項（付合、混和又は加工の効果） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-247/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-247/par-1 - 民法 第二百四十八条第一項（付合、混和又は加工に伴う償金の請求） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-248/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-248/par-1 - 民法 第九百九十九条第二項（遺贈の物上代位） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-999/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-999/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