# 民法 / Civil Code — 第二百四十三条 (Article 243) - 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: 第二百四十三条 (Article 243)（動産の付合） — address `art-243` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-243 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-243 - 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. --- ### 第二百四十三条（動産の付合） — (Accession to Movables) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-243 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-243 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-243 **第一項** 所有者を異にする数個の動産が、付合により、損傷しなければ分離することができなくなったときは、その合成物の所有権は、主たる動産の所有者に帰属する。分離するのに過分の費用を要するときも、同様とする。 art-243/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-243/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-243/par-1 If two or more movable properties with different owners can no longer be separated without damage due to accession, the ownership of the composite thing belongs to the owner of the principal movable property. The same applies if excessive expense is required to separate the movables. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 第二百四十五条第一項（混和） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-245/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-245/par-1 - 民法 第二百四十七条第一項（付合、混和又は加工の効果） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-247/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-247/par-1 - 民法 第二百四十八条第一項（付合、混和又は加工に伴う償金の請求） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-248/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-248/par-1 - 民法 第九百九十九条第二項（遺贈の物上代位） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-999/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-999/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