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Buildings must not be erected at a distance of less than one shaku five sun from the boundary line.

If a person is erecting a building in contravention of the foregoing provision, the owner of the neighbouring land may have it stopped or changed; but if a year has elapsed since the commencement of the building, or if the building has been completed, he can only claim damages.

A person who makes at a distance of less than three shaku from the boundary line a window or veranda which overlooks the curtilage of a dwelling house, must provide a screen.

The distance is computed perpendicularly to the boundary line from that point of the window or veranda which is nearest to the neighbouring land.

If in the cases mentioned in Arts. 234 and 235 there is a different custom, such custom is to govern.

If a well, a cistern, a cesspool or a receptacle for manure is dug, it must not be at a distance of less than six shaku from the boundary line; or if a pond, a cellar or a privy vault is dug, it must not be at a distance of less than three shaku from the boundary line.

Water pipes must not be laid or ditches dug at a distance of less than one half of their depth from the boundary line; but in no case need the distance be more than three shaku.