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Civil Act — Article 644 (Sub-lessee's right to demand lease contract and right to demand purchase of building)

민법 제644조

(1) In the case of a land lease where the lessee's objective is to own a building or any other structure, or for planting, collecting salt, and stock farming, where the land has been lawfully sub-leased, if any building, tree or any other facilities on the land remains subsisting at the time when the periods for lease and sub-lease have concurrently terminated, the sublessee may demand that the lessor give him or her a lease on the same terms as those of the former sub-lease.

(2) The provisions of Article 283(2) shall apply mutatis mutandis, if, in the case of paragraph (1), the lessor does not desire to lease his or her land.

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