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Article 58Non-Extinguishment of Authority to Act as a Person's Litigation Representative

第五十八条(訴訟代理権の不消滅)

The following grounds do not cause a person's authority to act as a litigation representative to be extinguished:

訴訟代理権は、次に掲げる事由によっては、消滅しない。

a party's death or loss of capacity to sue or be sued;

当事者の死亡又は訴訟能力の喪失

the disappearance due to merger of a corporation that is a party;

当事者である法人の合併による消滅

termination of duties involved in a trust assigned to a trustee that is a party;

当事者である受託者の信託に関する任務の終了

a legal representative's death or loss of capacity to sue or be sued, or extinguishment or modification of the legal representative's authority to act as a person's legal representative.

法定代理人の死亡、訴訟能力の喪失又は代理権の消滅若しくは変更

A litigation representative's authority to act as the litigation representative for a person of a certain status who stands as a party to litigation in that person's own name on behalf of another person does not extinguish due to the party's loss of that status due to death or other such grounds.

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訴訟代理人の代理権は、当事者の死亡その他の事由による資格の喪失によっては、消滅しない。

The provisions of the preceding paragraph apply mutatis mutandis if an appointed party has lost that status due to death or other such grounds.

前項の規定は、選定当事者が死亡その他の事由により資格を喪失した場合について準用する。

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