# 民法 / Civil Code — 第二百四十一条 (Article 241) - 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: 第二百四十一条 (Article 241)（埋蔵物の発見） — address `art-241` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-241 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-241 - 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. --- ### 第二百四十一条（埋蔵物の発見） — (Discovery of Buried Things) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-241 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-241 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-241 **第一項** 埋蔵物は、遺失物法の定めるところに従い公告をした後六箇月以内にその所有者が判明しないときは、これを発見した者がその所有権を取得する。ただし、他人の所有する物の中から発見された埋蔵物については、これを発見した者及びその他人が等しい割合でその所有権を取得する。 art-241/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-241/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-241/par-1 If the owner of a buried thing is not identified within six months of the time when public notice is effected as prescribed by the Lost Property Act, the finder acquires ownership of the same; provided, however, that with respect to a buried thing discovered inside a thing that belongs to another person, the finder and that other person acquire equally proportionate ownership of that buried thing. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## 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/ja/lost-property-act/art-27/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-27/par-1 - 遺失物法 第三十条第一項（拾得者等の費用償還義務の免除） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/lost-property-act/art-30/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-30/par-1 - 遺失物法 第三十二条第一項（遺失者の権利放棄による拾得者の所有権取得等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/lost-property-act/art-32/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-32/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/ja/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/ja/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/ja/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/ja/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) — 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