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Article 352Limitations to the Examination of Evidence

第三百五十二条(証拠調べの制限)

In an action on bills or notes, the court may only conduct examinations of evidence that involve documentary evidence and the content of information recorded in electronic or magnetic records.

手形訴訟においては、証拠調べは、書証及び電磁的記録に記録された情報の内容に係る証拠調べに限りすることができる。

The court may not order a person to submit a document or request a person to send a document, and it may not issue an order as prescribed in Article 223 as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 231-3, paragraph (1) or to make a request as prescribed in Article 226 as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to that paragraph. The same applies to the court's ordering a person to submit an object that contains handwriting or a seal impression to be used for comparison or to the court's requesting a person to send the object.

文書の提出の命令若しくは送付の嘱託又は第二百三十一条の三第一項において準用する第二百二十三条に規定する命令若しくは同項において準用する第二百二十六条に規定する嘱託は、することができない。対照の用に供すべき筆跡又は印影を備える物件の提出の命令又は送付の嘱託についても、同様とする。

Upon petition, the court may examine the parties themselves regarding the authenticity or inauthenticity of a document's or electronic or magnetic record's provenance or regarding a fact that concerns the presentation of a bill or note.

文書若しくは電磁的記録の成立の真否又は手形の提示に関する事実については、申立てにより、当事者本人を尋問することができる。

The court may not commission the examination of evidence. The same applies to the commissioning of an examination under the provisions of Article 186, paragraph (1).

証拠調べの嘱託は、することができない。第百八十六条第一項の規定による調査の嘱託についても、同様とする。

The provisions of the preceding paragraphs do not apply to matters that are to be examined by the court sua sponte.

前各項の規定は、裁判所が職権で調査すべき事項には、適用しない。

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