Article 49Postponement of the Expiration of the Prescription Period If the Transferee of a Right Intervenes in Litigation
第四十九条（権利承継人の訴訟参加の場合における時効の完成猶予等）
If, while litigation is pending, a person asserting that the whole or part of the rights that are the subject of that litigation have been transferred to them intervenes in the litigation pursuant to the provisions of Article 47, paragraph (1) a judicial claim is deemed to have been filed at the time when the litigation first became pending, as it concerns postponing the expiration of the prescription period.
訴訟の係属中その訴訟の目的である権利の全部又は一部を譲り受けたことを主張する者が第四十七条第一項の規定により訴訟参加をしたときは、時効の完成猶予に関しては、当該訴訟の係属の初めに、裁判上の請求があったものとみなす。
In a case provided for in the preceding paragraph, the intervention gives rise to the effect of compliance with statutory time frames, retroactive to the time when the litigation first became pending.
前項に規定する場合には、その参加は、訴訟の係属の初めに遡って法律上の期間の遵守の効力を生ずる。
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