# 民法 / Civil Code — 第二百八十八条 (Article 288) - 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: 第二百八十八条 (Article 288)（承役地の所有者の工作物の使用） — address `art-288` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-288 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-288 - 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. --- ### 第二百八十八条（承役地の所有者の工作物の使用） — (Use of Structures by the Owner of Servient Lands) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-288 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-288 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-288 **第一項** 承役地の所有者は、地役権の行使を妨げない範囲内において、その行使のために承役地の上に設けられた工作物を使用することができる。 art-288/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-288/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-288/par-1 The owner of a servient land may use structures installed on the servient land for the exercise of the servitude to the extent the use does not obstruct the exercise of that servitude. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の場合には、承役地の所有者は、その利益を受ける割合に応じて、工作物の設置及び保存の費用を分担しなければならない。 art-288/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-288/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-288/par-2 In the cases referred to in the preceding paragraph, the owner of the servient land must bear the expense for the installation and preservation of the structures in proportion to the benefit that owner receives. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-288/par-2: 前項 → 民法 第二百八十八条第一項 (Article 288, paragraph (1)), art-288/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-288/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-288/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 第二百八十八条第二項（承役地の所有者の工作物の使用） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-288/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-288/par-2 --- ## 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