Litigation proceedings are subject to a continuance if any of the following grounds occur. In such a case, the person specified in the relevant item must be substituted as a party:
次の各号に掲げる事由があるときは、訴訟手続は、中断する。この場合においては、それぞれ当該各号に定める者は、訴訟手続を受け継がなければならない。
a party's death:the party's heir, the administrator of the estate, the liquidator of the estate, or any other person who is to continue the action pursuant to laws and regulations;
当事者の死亡 相続人、相続財産の管理人、相続財産の清算人その他法令により訴訟を続行すべき者
the disappearance due to merger of a corporation that is a party:the corporation incorporated in the merger or the corporation surviving the merger;
当事者である法人の合併による消滅 合併によって設立された法人又は合併後存続する法人
a party's loss of the capacity to sue or be sued, or a legal representative's death or extinguishment of the authority to act as a person's legal representative:the party's legal representative or the party who has acquired the capacity to sue or be sued;
当事者の訴訟能力の喪失又は法定代理人の死亡若しくは代理権の消滅 法定代理人又は訴訟能力を有するに至った当事者
termination of duties involved in a trust assigned to one of the persons listed in (a) through (c) below: the person specified in (a) through (c):
次のイからハまでに掲げる者の信託に関する任務の終了 当該イからハまでに定める者
a trustee that is a party:the new trustee or the trust property administrator or incorporated trust property administrator;
当事者である受託者 新たな受託者又は信託財産管理者若しくは信託財産法人管理人
a trust property administrator or incorporated trust property administrator that is a party:the new trustee, new trust property administrator, or new incorporated trust property administrator;
当事者である信託財産管理者又は信託財産法人管理人 新たな受託者又は新たな信託財産管理者若しくは新たな信託財産法人管理人
a trust caretaker that is a party:the beneficiary or the new trust caretaker.
当事者である信託管理人 受益者又は新たな信託管理人
the loss of status, due to death or any other grounds, of a person of a certain status who stood as a party to the litigation in that person's own name on behalf of another person:a person of the same status;
一定の資格を有する者で自己の名で他人のために訴訟の当事者となるものの死亡その他の事由による資格の喪失 同一の資格を有する者
all appointed parties' loss of status due to death or any other grounds:all appointing parties, or the new appointed parties.
The provisions of the preceding paragraph do not apply during a time when there is a litigation representative.
前項の規定は、訴訟代理人がある間は、適用しない。
Even if there are grounds as stated in paragraph (1), item (i), the heir is not permitted to be substituted as a party during the time frame in which it is possible to renounce the inheritance.
第一項第一号に掲げる事由がある場合においても、相続人は、相続の放棄をすることができる間は、訴訟手続を受け継ぐことができない。
The provisions of paragraph (1), item (ii) do not apply if the merger may not be asserted against the adverse party.
第一項第二号の規定は、合併をもって相手方に対抗することができない場合には、適用しない。
If the legal representative stated in paragraph (1), item (iii) is a curator or assistant, the provisions of that item do not apply in the following cases:
the person under curatorship or person under assistantship is not required to obtain consent of the curator or assistant for performing procedural acts;
被保佐人又は被補助人が訴訟行為をすることについて保佐人又は補助人の同意を得ることを要しないとき。
the person under curatorship or person under assistantship is required to obtain consent prescribed in the preceding item, and has obtained it.
被保佐人又は被補助人が前号に規定する同意を得ることを要する場合において、その同意を得ているとき。
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