# 民法 / Civil Code — 第二百六十条 (Article 260) - 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: 第二百六十条 (Article 260)（共有物の分割への参加） — address `art-260` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-260 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-260 - 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. --- ### 第二百六十条（共有物の分割への参加） — (Participation in Partition of Property in Co-Ownership) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-260 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-260 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-260 **第一項** 共有物について権利を有する者及び各共有者の債権者は、自己の費用で、分割に参加することができる。 art-260/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-260/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-260/par-1 A person that holds a right with respect to property in co-ownership and an obligee of any of the co-owners may participate in partitions at their own expense. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の規定による参加の請求があったにもかかわらず、その請求をした者を参加させないで分割をしたときは、その分割は、その請求をした者に対抗することができない。 art-260/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-260/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-260/par-2 If, notwithstanding a request for participation under the provisions of the preceding paragraph, partition is effected without allowing the participation of the person that submitted the request, that partition may not be duly asserted against the person that submitted the request. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-260/par-2: 前項 → 民法 第二百六十条第一項 (Article 260, paragraph (1)), art-260/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-260/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-260/par-1 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 第二百六十条第二項（共有物の分割への参加） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-260/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-260/par-2 - 民法 第九百三十三条第一項（相続債権者及び受遺者の換価手続への参加） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-933/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-933/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