# 民法 / Civil Code — 第二百六十二条の二 (Article 262-2) - 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: 第二百六十二条の二 (Article 262-2)（所在等不明共有者の持分の取得） — address `art-262-2` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-262-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-262-2 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第二百六十二条の二（所在等不明共有者の持分の取得） — (Acquisition of Ownership Share of Co-owner Whose Whereabouts Are Unknown) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-262-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-262-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-262-2 **第一項** 不動産が数人の共有に属する場合において、共有者が他の共有者を知ることができず、又はその所在を知ることができないときは、裁判所は、共有者の請求により、その共有者に、当該他の共有者（以下この条において「所在等不明共有者」という。）の持分を取得させる旨の裁判をすることができる。この場合において、請求をした共有者が二人以上あるときは、請求をした各共有者に、所在等不明共有者の持分を、請求をした各共有者の持分の割合で按分してそれぞれ取得させる。 art-262-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-262-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-262-2/par-1 When immovables belong to several co-owners, if a co-owner is unable to ascertain the identity of another co-owner or to ascertain their whereabouts, the court may, at the request of a co-owner, render a judicial decision to allow the co-owner to acquire the ownership share of the co-owner in question (referred to as "co-owner whose whereabouts are unknown" in this Article below). In this case, if there are two or more co-owners who have made the request, they may acquire the ownership share of the co-owner whose whereabouts are unknown in proportion to the ownership shares of property in co-ownership held by each of the co-owners who made the request. machine translation, not official **第二項** 前項の請求があった持分に係る不動産について第二百五十八条第一項の規定による請求又は遺産の分割の請求があり、かつ、所在等不明共有者以外の共有者が前項の請求を受けた裁判所に同項の裁判をすることについて異議がある旨の届出をしたときは、裁判所は、同項の裁判をすることができない。 art-262-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-262-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-262-2/par-2 If a request under the provisions of Article 258, paragraph (1) or a request for division of inherited property has been made with regard to immovables related to the ownership share for which a request was filed under the preceding paragraph, and if any co-owner other than the co-owner whose whereabouts are unknown has notified the court which received the request filed under the preceding paragraph to the effect that the co-owner has an objection to the court's rendering a judicial decision under the same paragraph, the court may not render the judicial decision stated in the same paragraph. machine translation, not official **第三項** 所在等不明共有者の持分が相続財産に属する場合（共同相続人間で遺産の分割をすべき場合に限る。）において、相続開始の時から十年を経過していないときは、裁判所は、第一項の裁判をすることができない。 art-262-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-262-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-262-2/par-3 If the ownership share of a co-owner whose whereabouts are unknown belongs to inherited property (limited to cases where the inheritance should be divided among coheirs), the court may not render the judicial decision referred to in paragraph (1) if ten years have not yet passed from the time of commencement of the inheritance. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第四項** 第一項の規定により共有者が所在等不明共有者の持分を取得したときは、所在等不明共有者は、当該共有者に対し、当該共有者が取得した持分の時価相当額の支払を請求することができる。 art-262-2/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-262-2/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-262-2/par-4 If a co-owner has acquired the ownership share of a co-owner whose whereabouts are unknown pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1), the co-owner whose whereabouts are unknown is entitled to demand payment of the amount equivalent to the market value of the ownership share acquired from the relevant co-owner. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第五項** 前各項の規定は、不動産の使用又は収益をする権利（所有権を除く。）が数人の共有に属する場合について準用する。 art-262-2/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-262-2/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-262-2/par-5 The provisions of the preceding paragraphs apply mutatis mutandis to cases where a right to use or earn profits from immovables (excluding the right of ownership) belongs to several co-owners. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-262-2/par-1: この条 → 民法 第二百六十二条の二 (Article 262-2), art-262-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-262-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-262-2 - art-262-2/par-2: 前項 → 民法 第二百六十二条の二第一項 (Article 262-2, paragraph (1)), art-262-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-262-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-262-2/par-1 - art-262-2/par-2: 第二百五十八条第一項 → 民法 第二百五十八条第一項 (Article 258, paragraph (1)), art-258/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-258/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-258/par-1 - art-262-2/par-3: 第一項 → 民法 第二百六十二条の二第一項 (Article 262-2, paragraph (1)), art-262-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-262-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-262-2/par-1 - art-262-2/par-4: 第一項 → 民法 第二百六十二条の二第一項 (Article 262-2, paragraph (1)), art-262-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-262-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-262-2/par-1 - art-262-2/par-5: 前各項 → 民法 第二百六十二条の二第一項 (Article 262-2, paragraph (1)), art-262-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-262-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-262-2/par-1 - art-262-2/par-5: 前各項 → 民法 第二百六十二条の二第二項 (Article 262-2, paragraph (2)), art-262-2/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-262-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-262-2/par-2 - art-262-2/par-5: 前各項 → 民法 第二百六十二条の二第三項 (Article 262-2, paragraph (3)), art-262-2/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-262-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-262-2/par-3 - art-262-2/par-5: 前各項 → 民法 第二百六十二条の二第四項 (Article 262-2, paragraph (4)), art-262-2/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-262-2/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-262-2/par-4 ## Cited by 6 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 第二百六十二条の二第一項（所在等不明共有者の持分の取得） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-262-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-262-2/par-1 - 民法 第二百六十二条の二第二項（所在等不明共有者の持分の取得） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-262-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-262-2/par-2 - 民法 第二百六十二条の二第三項（所在等不明共有者の持分の取得） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-262-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-262-2/par-3 - 民法 第二百六十二条の二第四項（所在等不明共有者の持分の取得） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-262-2/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-262-2/par-4 - 民法 第二百六十二条の二第五項（所在等不明共有者の持分の取得） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-262-2/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-262-2/par-5 - 民法 第二百六十四条第一項（準共有） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-264/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-264/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 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch civil-code-20261011T170941-001, translated 2026-10-12 - This site's parser, version 190 — 民法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-11