# 民法 / Civil Code — 第二百八十五条 (Article 285) - 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: 第二百八十五条 (Article 285)（用水地役権） — address `art-285` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-285 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-285 - 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. --- ### 第二百八十五条（用水地役権） — (Servitude for Water Use) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-285 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-285 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-285 **第一項** 用水地役権の承役地（地役権者以外の者の土地であって、要役地の便益に供されるものをいう。以下同じ。）において、水が要役地及び承役地の需要に比して不足するときは、その各土地の需要に応じて、まずこれを生活用に供し、その残余を他の用途に供するものとする。ただし、設定行為に別段の定めがあるときは、この限りでない。 art-285/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-285/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-285/par-1 If water on servient land (meaning a land of a person other than the servitude holder, made available for the benefit of the dominant land; the same applies below) subject to a servitude for water use is insufficient for the demand of the dominant land and the servient land, the water is to be used in proportion to the demand on each parcel of land, firstly for household purposes with the remaining portion used for other purposes; provided, however, that this does not apply if the act establishing the servitude provides otherwise. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 同一の承役地について数個の用水地役権を設定したときは、後の地役権者は、前の地役権者の水の使用を妨げてはならない。 art-285/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-285/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-285/par-2 If more than one servitude for water use is created with respect to the same servient land, the subsequent servitude holders may not prevent the use of water by the previous servitude holders. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 不動産登記法 第八十条第一項（地役権の登記の登記事項等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/real-property-registration-act/art-80/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000123/art-80/par-1 - 不動産登記法 第八十条第一項第三号（地役権の登記の登記事項等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/real-property-registration-act/art-80/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000123/art-80/par-1/item-3 --- ## 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