# 民法 / Civil Code — 第二百七十五条 (Article 275) - 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: 第二百七十五条 (Article 275)（永小作権の放棄） — address `art-275` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-275 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-275 - 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. --- ### 第二百七十五条（永小作権の放棄） — (Waiver of Farming Rights) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-275 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-275 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-275 **第一項** 永小作人は、不可抗力によって、引き続き三年以上全く収益を得ず、又は五年以上小作料より少ない収益を得たときは、その権利を放棄することができる。 art-275/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-275/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-275/par-1 If a farming right holder has gained no profit whatsoever for three or more consecutive years or has gained profits less than the rent for five or more consecutive years due to force majeure, that holder may surrender waive that right. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 第二百六十六条第一項（地代） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-266/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-266/par-1 - 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