# 遺失物法 / Lost Property Act — 第三十二条 (Article 32) - Law: 遺失物法 (Lost Property Act), 平成十八年法律第七十三号 - English title "Lost Property Act": Ministry of Justice translation database, which lists the title - 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: 第三十二条 (Article 32)（遺失者の権利放棄による拾得者の所有権取得等） — address `art-32` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/lost-property-act/art-32 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-32 - 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. --- ### 第三十二条（遺失者の権利放棄による拾得者の所有権取得等） — Acquisition of Ownership by Finders upon Waiver of Rights by Persons Who Lost, etc. caption: machine translation, not official art-32 · https://japanlaw.org/en/lost-property-act/art-32 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-32 **第一項** すべての遺失者が物件についてその有する権利を放棄したときは、拾得者が当該物件の所有権を取得する。ただし、民法第二百四十一条ただし書に規定する埋蔵物については、同条ただし書の規定の例による。 art-32/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/lost-property-act/art-32/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-32/par-1 When all persons who lost the property have waived the rights they hold in the property, the finder acquires ownership of that property; provided, however, that a buried thing prescribed in the proviso to Article 241 of the Civil Code is governed by the same rules as the proviso to that Article. machine translation, not official **第二項** 前項の規定により物件の所有権を取得する者は、その取得する権利を放棄して、第二十七条第一項の費用を償還する義務を免れることができる。 art-32/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/lost-property-act/art-32/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-32/par-2 A person who acquires ownership of property under the provisions of the preceding paragraph may waive the right so acquired and thereby be released from the obligation to reimburse the expenses referred to in Article 27, paragraph (1). machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-32/par-1: 民法第二百四十一条 → 民法 第二百四十一条 (Article 241), art-241 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-241 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-241 - art-32/par-2: 前項 → 遺失物法 第三十二条第一項 (Article 32, paragraph (1)), art-32/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/lost-property-act/art-32/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-32/par-1 - art-32/par-2: 第二十七条第一項 → 遺失物法 第二十七条第一項 (Article 27, paragraph (1)), art-27/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/lost-property-act/art-27/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-27/par-1 ## Cited by 7 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 遺失物法 第二十七条第一項（費用の負担） — https://japanlaw.org/en/lost-property-act/art-27/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-27/par-1 - 遺失物法 第三十二条第二項（遺失者の権利放棄による拾得者の所有権取得等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/lost-property-act/art-32/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-32/par-2 - 遺失物法 第三十三条第一項（施設占有者の権利取得等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/lost-property-act/art-33/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-33/par-1 - 遺失物法 第三十四条第一項（費用請求権等の喪失） — https://japanlaw.org/en/lost-property-act/art-34/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-34/par-1 - 遺失物法 第三十五条第一項（所有権を取得することができない物件） — https://japanlaw.org/en/lost-property-act/art-35/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-35/par-1 - 遺失物法 第三十六条第一項（拾得者等の所有権の喪失） — https://japanlaw.org/en/lost-property-act/art-36/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-36/par-1 - 遺失物法 第三十七条第一項（都道府県への所有権の帰属等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/lost-property-act/art-37/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-37/par-1 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 遺失物法 — the text in force from 2025-06-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/418AC0000000073/20250601_504AC0000000068), retrieved 2026-10-11 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — 遺失物法 — its English title as the Ministry of Justice's translation database lists it (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/1640), retrieved 2026-10-11 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch lost-property-act-20261011T093710-004, translated 2026-10-11 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch lost-property-act-20261011T093710-005, translated 2026-10-11 - This site's parser, version 186 — 遺失物法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-11