# 民法 / Civil Code — 第二百六十四条 (Article 264) - 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: 第二百六十四条 (Article 264)（準共有） — address `art-264` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-264 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-264 - 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. --- ### 第二百六十四条（準共有） — (De Facto Co-Ownership) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-264 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-264 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-264 **第一項** この節（第二百六十二条の二及び第二百六十二条の三を除く。）の規定は、数人で所有権以外の財産権を有する場合について準用する。ただし、法令に特別の定めがあるときは、この限りでない。 art-264/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-264/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-264/par-1 The provisions of this Section (excluding Article 262-2 and Article 262-3) apply mutatis mutandis if two or more persons share property rights other than ownership; provided, however, that this does not apply if otherwise provided by laws and regulations. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-264/par-1: 第二百六十二条の二 → 民法 第二百六十二条の二 (Article 262-2), art-262-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-262-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-262-2 - art-264/par-1: 第二百六十二条の三 → 民法 第二百六十二条の三 (Article 262-3), art-262-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-262-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-262-3 ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 不動産登記法 第五十九条第一項第六号（権利に関する登記の登記事項） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/real-property-registration-act/art-59/par-1/item-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000123/art-59/par-1/item-6 - 建物の区分所有等に関する法律 第二十四条第一項（民法第二百五十五条の適用除外） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/building-unit-ownership-act/art-24/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/337AC0000000069/art-24/par-1 - 建物の区分所有等に関する法律 第七十七条第一項（敷地共有持分等に係る土地等の分割請求に関する特例） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/building-unit-ownership-act/art-77/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/337AC0000000069/art-77/par-1 - 建物の区分所有等に関する法律 第七十七条第二項（敷地共有持分等に係る土地等の分割請求に関する特例） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/building-unit-ownership-act/art-77/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/337AC0000000069/art-77/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