# 民法 / Civil Code — 第二百七十二条 (Article 272) - 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: 第二百七十二条 (Article 272)（永小作権の譲渡又は土地の賃貸） — address `art-272` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-272 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-272 - 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. --- ### 第二百七十二条（永小作権の譲渡又は土地の賃貸） — (Assignment of Farming Rights or Leasing of Land) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-272 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-272 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-272 **第一項** 永小作人は、その権利を他人に譲り渡し、又はその権利の存続期間内において耕作若しくは牧畜のため土地を賃貸することができる。ただし、設定行為で禁じたときは、この限りでない。 art-272/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-272/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-272/par-1 A farming right holder may assign the holder's right to another person or lease the land during the duration of the right to cultivate or farm livestock; provided, however, that this does not apply if those acts are prohibited by the act that established that right. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 不動産登記法 第七十九条第一項第三号（永小作権の登記の登記事項） — https://japanlaw.org/en/real-property-registration-act/art-79/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000123/art-79/par-1/item-3 - 民法 第二百七十七条第一項（永小作権に関する慣習） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-277/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-277/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 - This site's parser, version 190 — 民法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-11