# 民法 / Civil Code — 第二百六十二条 (Article 262) - 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: 第二百六十二条 (Article 262)（共有物に関する証書） — address `art-262` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-262 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-262 - 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. --- ### 第二百六十二条（共有物に関する証書） — (Instruments Regarding Property in Co-Ownership) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-262 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-262 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-262 **第一項** 分割が完了したときは、各分割者は、その取得した物に関する証書を保存しなければならない。 art-262/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-262/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-262/par-1 When a partition is completed, each of the persons that participated in the partition must retain the instruments regarding things each of them acquired. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 共有者の全員又はそのうちの数人に分割した物に関する証書は、その物の最大の部分を取得した者が保存しなければならない。 art-262/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-262/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-262/par-2 Instruments regarding a thing that is partitioned for some or all co-owners must be retained by the person that acquired the largest portion of that thing. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 前項の場合において、最大の部分を取得した者がないときは、分割者間の協議で証書の保存者を定める。協議が調わないときは、裁判所が、これを指定する。 art-262/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-262/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-262/par-3 In the cases referred to in the preceding paragraph, if no person acquired the largest portion, the person that is to retain the instruments is determined by agreement among the persons that participated in the partition. If no agreement is reached, the court designates the same. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第四項** 証書の保存者は、他の分割者の請求に応じて、その証書を使用させなければならない。 art-262/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-262/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-262/par-4 A person that is to retain instruments must allow other persons that participated in the partition to use the instruments at the request of the same. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-262/par-3: 前項 → 民法 第二百六十二条第二項 (Article 262, paragraph (2)), art-262/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-262/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-262/par-2 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 第二百六十二条第三項（共有物に関する証書） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-262/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-262/par-3 --- ## 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