# 民法 / Civil Code — 第二百六十八条 (Article 268) - 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: 第二百六十八条 (Article 268)（地上権の存続期間） — address `art-268` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-268 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-268 - 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. --- ### 第二百六十八条（地上権の存続期間） — (Duration of Superficies) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-268 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-268 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-268 **第一項** 設定行為で地上権の存続期間を定めなかった場合において、別段の慣習がないときは、地上権者は、いつでもその権利を放棄することができる。ただし、地代を支払うべきときは、一年前に予告をし、又は期限の到来していない一年分の地代を支払わなければならない。 art-268/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-268/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-268/par-1 If the duration of superficies is not fixed by the act that established the same and there are no relevant customs, the superficiary may waive that right at any time; provided, however, that if rent must be paid, the superficiary must give notice one year or more in advance or pay rent for one year that has not yet become due and payable. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 地上権者が前項の規定によりその権利を放棄しないときは、裁判所は、当事者の請求により、二十年以上五十年以下の範囲内において、工作物又は竹木の種類及び状況その他地上権の設定当時の事情を考慮して、その存続期間を定める。 art-268/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-268/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-268/par-2 If the superficiary does not waive that right pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the court may, at the request of the parties concerned, fix a duration of 20 years or more but not more than 50 years, taking into consideration the kind and status of the structures, or trees or bamboo and other circumstances at the time of the creation of the superficies. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-268/par-2: 前項 → 民法 第二百六十八条第一項 (Article 268, paragraph (1)), art-268/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-268/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-268/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 第二百六十八条第二項（地上権の存続期間） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-268/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-268/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