# 民法 / Civil Code — 第二百八十七条 (Article 287)

- 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: 第二百八十七条 (Article 287) — address `art-287`
- Text in force since: 2026-06-24
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-287
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-287
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### 第二百八十七条
<sup>art-287 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-287 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-287</sup>

  **第一項**  承役地の所有者は、いつでも、地役権に必要な土地の部分の所有権を放棄して地役権者に移転し、これにより前条の義務を免れることができる。
  <sup>art-287/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-287/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-287/par-1</sup>
  An owner of servient land may be exempted from obligations of the preceding Article at any time by abandoning the ownership in the portion of the land necessary for the servitude and transferring the same to the servitude holder.
  <sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

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## Cites
- art-287/par-1: 前条 → 民法 第二百八十六条 (Article 286), art-286 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-286 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-286

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## 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