# 民法 / Civil Code — 第二百三十条 (Article 230) - 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: 第二百三十条 (Article 230) — address `art-230` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-230 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-230 - 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. --- ### 第二百三十条 art-230 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-230 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-230 **第一項** 一棟の建物の一部を構成する境界線上の障壁については、前条の規定は、適用しない。 art-230/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-230/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-230/par-1 The provisions of the preceding Article do not apply to a wall on a boundary line that constitutes part of a building. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 高さの異なる二棟の隣接する建物を隔てる障壁の高さが、低い建物の高さを超えるときは、その障壁のうち低い建物を超える部分についても、前項と同様とする。ただし、防火障壁については、この限りでない。 art-230/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-230/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-230/par-2 If the height of a wall that separates two neighboring buildings of different heights is higher than the height of the lower building, the preceding paragraph also applies with respect to that portion of that wall that is higher than the lower building; provided, however, that this does not apply to fire walls. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-230/par-1: 前条 → 民法 第二百二十九条 (Article 229), art-229 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-229 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-229 - art-230/par-2: 前項 → 民法 第二百三十条第一項 (Article 230, paragraph (1)), art-230/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-230/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-230/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 第二百三十条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-230/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-230/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