# 遺失物法 / Lost Property Act — 第三十六条 (Article 36) - 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: 第三十六条 (Article 36)（拾得者等の所有権の喪失） — address `art-36` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/lost-property-act/art-36 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-36 - 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. --- ### 第三十六条（拾得者等の所有権の喪失） — Loss of Ownership by Finders, etc. caption: machine translation, not official art-36 · https://japanlaw.org/en/lost-property-act/art-36 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-36 **第一項** 民法第二百四十条若しくは第二百四十一条の規定又は第三十二条第一項の規定により物件の所有権を取得した者は、当該取得の日から二箇月以内に当該物件を警察署長又は特例施設占有者から引き取らないときは、その所有権を失う。 art-36/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/lost-property-act/art-36/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-36/par-1 A person who has acquired ownership of property under the provisions of Article 240 or 241 of the Civil Code or the provisions of Article 32, paragraph (1) loses that ownership if the person does not collect the property from the chief of a police station or the special-case facility occupant within two months from the day of the acquisition. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-36/par-1: 民法第二百四十条 → 民法 第二百四十条 (Article 240), art-240 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-240 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-240 - art-36/par-1: 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-36/par-1: 第三十二条第一項 → 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 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 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-20261011T093710-005, 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