# 民法 / Civil Code — 第二百六十六条 (Article 266) - 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: 第二百六十六条 (Article 266)（地代） — address `art-266` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-266 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-266 - 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. --- ### 第二百六十六条（地代） — (Rents) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-266 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-266 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-266 **第一項** 第二百七十四条から第二百七十六条までの規定は、地上権者が土地の所有者に定期の地代を支払わなければならない場合について準用する。 art-266/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-266/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-266/par-1 The provisions of Articles 274 through 276 apply mutatis mutandis if the superficiary must pay periodical rent to the owners of the land. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 地代については、前項に規定するもののほか、その性質に反しない限り、賃貸借に関する規定を準用する。 art-266/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-266/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-266/par-2 Beyond what is provided for in the preceding paragraph, provisions on leasehold apply mutatis mutandis to rent to the extent that application is not inconsistent with the nature of the same. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-266/par-1: 第二百七十四条から第二百七十六条まで → 民法 第二百七十四条 (Article 274), art-274 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-274 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-274 - art-266/par-1: 第二百七十四条から第二百七十六条まで → 民法 第二百七十五条 (Article 275), art-275 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-275 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-275 - art-266/par-1: 第二百七十四条から第二百七十六条まで → 民法 第二百七十六条 (Article 276), art-276 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-276 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-276 - art-266/par-2: 前項 → 民法 第二百六十六条第一項 (Article 266, paragraph (1)), art-266/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-266/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-266/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 第二百六十六条第二項（地代） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-266/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-266/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