# 民事執行法 / Civil Enforcement Act — 第八十一条 (Article 81) - Law: 民事執行法 (Civil Enforcement Act), 昭和五十四年法律第四号 - English title "Civil Enforcement Act": 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: 第八十一条 (Article 81)（法定地上権） — address `art-81` - Text in force since: 2026-05-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-81 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-81 - 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. --- ### 第八十一条（法定地上権） — (Statutory Superficies) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-81 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-81 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-81 **第一項** 土地及びその上にある建物が債務者の所有に属する場合において、その土地又は建物の差押えがあり、その売却により所有者を異にするに至つたときは、その建物について、地上権が設定されたものとみなす。この場合においては、地代は、当事者の請求により、裁判所が定める。 art-81/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-81/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-81/par-1 If land and any building built on it are under the ownership of an obligor, if the land or building has been seized and the owner of either the land or building has changed to a person other than that obligor through its sale, a superficies is deemed to have been established for the building. In this case, the rent is specified by the court, upon request by the party concerned. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民事執行法 第百二十一条第一項（不動産に対する強制競売の規定の準用） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-121/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-121/par-1 - 民事執行法 第百八十八条第一項（不動産執行の規定の準用） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-188/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-188/par-1 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 民事執行法 — the text in force from 2026-05-21 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/354AC0000000004/20260521_505AC0000000053), retrieved 2026-10-19 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Civil Enforcement Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4900/tb), retrieved 2026-10-19 - This site's parser, version 204 — 民事執行法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-19