# 民法 / Civil Code — 第六百二条 (Article 602) - 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: 第六百二条 (Article 602)（短期賃貸借） — address `art-602` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-602 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-602 - 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. --- ### 第六百二条（短期賃貸借） — (Short-Term Leases) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-602 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-602 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-602 **第一項** 処分の権限を有しない者が賃貸借をする場合には、次の各号に掲げる賃貸借は、それぞれ当該各号に定める期間を超えることができない。契約でこれより長い期間を定めたときであっても、その期間は、当該各号に定める期間とする。 art-602/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-602/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-602/par-1 If a person with no authority of disposition makes a lease contract, the leases stated in the following items must not exceed the terms specified in those items; any longer term specified by a contract is reduced to the term specified in the relevant item: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 樹木の栽植又は伐採を目的とする山林の賃貸借　十年 art-602/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-602/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-602/par-1/item-1 leases of forest for the purpose of planting or felling trees:10 years; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 前号に掲げる賃貸借以外の土地の賃貸借　五年 art-602/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-602/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-602/par-1/item-2 leases of land other than the leases stated in the preceding item:five years; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **三** 建物の賃貸借　三年 art-602/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-602/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-602/par-1/item-3 lease of a building:three years; and Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **四** 動産の賃貸借　六箇月 art-602/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-602/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-602/par-1/item-4 lease of movables:six months. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-602/par-1/item-2: 前号 → 民法 第六百二条第一項第一号 (Article 602, paragraph (1), item (i)), art-602/par-1/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-602/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-602/par-1/item-1 ## Cited by 5 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 第十三条第一項第九号（保佐人の同意を要する行為等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-13/par-1/item-9 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-13/par-1/item-9 - 民法 第六百二条第一項第二号（短期賃貸借） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-602/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-602/par-1/item-2 - 民法 第六百三条第一項（短期賃貸借の更新） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-603/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-603/par-1 - 民法 第九百二十一条第一項第一号（法定単純承認） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-921/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-921/par-1/item-1 - 民法 附則第五条第一項（短期賃貸借に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/suppl-4151-134/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-4151-134/art-5/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