# 民事執行法 / Civil Enforcement Act — 第二十四条 (Article 24) - Law: 民事執行法 (Civil Enforcement Act), 昭和五十四年法律第四号 - English title "Civil Enforcement Act": Ministry of Justice translation - Kind: Act — the distinction between 法律 (Act), 政令 (Cabinet Order), 省令 (Ministerial Order) and 条例 (local ordinance) decides who may issue it and what it may say. - Provision: 第二十四条 (Article 24)（外国裁判所の判決の執行判決） — address `art-24` - Text in force since: 2026-05-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-24 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-24 - Every provision below carries its address and both URLs on the line under it. - Japanese text: e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁). English: as marked on each line below. Only the Japanese as published by the government has legal effect; the text below is a copy of it. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第二十四条（外国裁判所の判決の執行判決） — (Enforcement Judgments for Foreign Court Judgments) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-24 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-24 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-24 **第一項** 外国裁判所の判決についての執行判決を求める訴えは、債務者の普通裁判籍の所在地を管轄する地方裁判所（家事事件における裁判に係るものにあつては、家庭裁判所。以下この項において同じ。）が管轄し、この普通裁判籍がないときは、請求の目的又は差し押さえることができる債務者の財産の所在地を管轄する地方裁判所が管轄する。 art-24/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-24/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-24/par-1 An action seeking an enforcement judgment for a foreign court judgment is subject to the jurisdiction of the district court (or the family court, for an action concerning a judicial decision in a domestic relations case; the same applies in this paragraph) having jurisdiction in the locality constituting the general venue of the obligor, and if there is no general venue, it is subject to the jurisdiction of the district court having jurisdiction in the place where the subject matter of the claim or the seizable property of the obligor is located. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項に規定する地方裁判所は、同項の訴えの全部又は一部が家庭裁判所の管轄に属する場合においても、相当と認めるときは、同項の規定にかかわらず、申立てにより又は職権で、当該訴えに係る訴訟の全部又は一部について自ら審理及び裁判をすることができる。 art-24/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-24/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-24/par-2 Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding paragraph, even if all or part of an action as referred to in that paragraph is subject to the jurisdiction of the family court, the district court provided for in the preceding paragraph, upon petition or by its own authority, may conduct the trial and reach a judicial decision itself for all or part of the litigation in the action, if it finds this to be appropriate. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 第一項に規定する家庭裁判所は、同項の訴えの全部又は一部が地方裁判所の管轄に属する場合においても、相当と認めるときは、同項の規定にかかわらず、申立てにより又は職権で、当該訴えに係る訴訟の全部又は一部について自ら審理及び裁判をすることができる。 art-24/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-24/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-24/par-3 Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (1), even if all or part of an action as referred to in that paragraph is subject to the jurisdiction of the district court, the family court provided for in that paragraph, upon petition or by its own authority, may conduct the trial and reach a judicial decision itself for all or part of the litigation in the action, if it finds this to be appropriate. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第四項** 執行判決は、裁判の当否を調査しないでしなければならない。 art-24/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-24/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-24/par-4 The court must make an enforcement judgment without investigating the correctness or incorrectness of the judicial decision. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第五項** 第一項の訴えは、外国裁判所の判決が、確定したことが証明されないとき、又は民事訴訟法第百十八条各号（家事事件手続法（平成二十三年法律第五十二号）第七十九条の二において準用する場合を含む。）に掲げる要件を具備しないときは、却下しなければならない。 art-24/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-24/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-24/par-5 The action referred to in paragraph (1) must be denied if it is not proved that the judgment of a foreign court has become final and binding or when the judgment fails to satisfy the requirements stated in the items of Article 118 of the Code of Civil Procedure (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 79-2 of the Domestic Relations Case Procedure Act (Act No. 52 of 2011)). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第六項** 執行判決においては、外国裁判所の判決による強制執行を許す旨を宣言しなければならない。 art-24/par-6 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-24/par-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-24/par-6 In an enforcement judgment, a declaration must be made permitting judicial enforcement based on the foreign court judgment. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-24/par-1: この項 → 民事執行法 第二十四条第一項 (Article 24, paragraph (1)), art-24/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-24/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-24/par-1 - art-24/par-2: 前項 → 民事執行法 第二十四条第一項 (Article 24, paragraph (1)), art-24/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-24/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-24/par-1 - art-24/par-3: 第一項 → 民事執行法 第二十四条第一項 (Article 24, paragraph (1)), art-24/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-24/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-24/par-1 - art-24/par-5: 第一項 → 民事執行法 第二十四条第一項 (Article 24, paragraph (1)), art-24/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-24/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-24/par-1 - art-24/par-5: 民事訴訟法第百十八条 → 民事訴訟法 第百十八条 (Article 118), art-118 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-118 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-118 - art-24/par-5: 家事事件手続法（平成二十三年法律第五十二号）第七十九条の二 → e-Gov law 423AC0000000052, 第七十九条の二 (Article 79-2), art-79-2 — not held in this collection ## Cited by 8 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民事執行法 第二十一条の二第一項（家庭裁判所における執行関係訴訟手続に関する特例） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-21-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-21-2/par-1 - 民事執行法 第二十二条第一項第六号（債務名義） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-22/par-1/item-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-22/par-1/item-6 - 民事執行法 第二十四条第一項（外国裁判所の判決の執行判決） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-24/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-24/par-1 - 民事執行法 第二十四条第二項（外国裁判所の判決の執行判決） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-24/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-24/par-2 - 民事執行法 第二十四条第三項（外国裁判所の判決の執行判決） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-24/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-24/par-3 - 民事執行法 第二十四条第五項（外国裁判所の判決の執行判決） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-24/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-24/par-5 - 民事執行法 附則第四条第二項（民事執行法の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/suppl-4301-20/art-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/suppl-4301-20/art-4/par-2 - 民事訴訟法 附則第二条第一項（訴訟費用額の確定手続に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/suppl-5041-48/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/suppl-5041-48/art-2/par-1 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 民事執行法 — the text in force from 2026-05-21 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/354AC0000000004/20260521_505AC0000000053), retrieved 2026-10-19 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Civil Enforcement Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4900/tb), retrieved 2026-10-19 - This site's parser, version 204 — 民事執行法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-19