# 民法 / Civil Code — 第二百八十一条 (Article 281) - 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: 第二百八十一条 (Article 281)（地役権の付従性） — address `art-281` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-281 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-281 - 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. --- ### 第二百八十一条（地役権の付従性） — (Accessoriness of Servitudes) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-281 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-281 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-281 **第一項** 地役権は、要役地（地役権者の土地であって、他人の土地から便益を受けるものをいう。以下同じ。）の所有権に従たるものとして、その所有権とともに移転し、又は要役地について存する他の権利の目的となるものとする。ただし、設定行為に別段の定めがあるときは、この限りでない。 art-281/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-281/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-281/par-1 Servitudes are transferred together with the ownership in the dominant land (meaning the land of a servitude holder, enjoying benefits from another person's land; the same applies below) as its appurtenances, and are subject of other rights that exist in relation to the dominant land; provided, however, that this does not apply if the act establishing the servitude provides otherwise. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 地役権は、要役地から分離して譲り渡し、又は他の権利の目的とすることができない。 art-281/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-281/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-281/par-2 Servitudes may neither be transferred nor made the subject of other rights apart from the dominant land. 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 第八十条第一項第一号（地役権の登記の登記事項等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/real-property-registration-act/art-80/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000123/art-80/par-1/item-1 - 不動産登記法 第八十条第一項第三号（地役権の登記の登記事項等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/real-property-registration-act/art-80/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000123/art-80/par-1/item-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