# 民事訴訟法 / Code of Civil Procedure — 第百二十八条 (Article 128) - Law: 民事訴訟法 (Code of Civil Procedure), 平成八年法律第百九号 - English title "Code of Civil Procedure": 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: 第百二十八条 (Article 128)（受継についての裁判） — address `art-128` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-128 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-128 - 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. Every English rendering below is a translation and says which kind: the Ministry of Justice's translation, or this site's machine translation, whose model and date the Sources list names. They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第百二十八条（受継についての裁判） — (Judicial Decision on Substitution) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-128 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-128 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-128 **第一項** 訴訟手続の受継の申立てがあった場合には、裁判所は、職権で調査し、理由がないと認めるときは、決定で、その申立てを却下しなければならない。 art-128/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-128/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-128/par-1 If a petition for the substitution of a party is filed and the court finds the petition to be groundless after conducting an examination sua sponte, the court must rule to deny the petition. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 第二百五十五条（第三百七十四条第二項において準用する場合を含む。以下この項において同じ。）の規定による第二百五十五条第一項に規定する電子判決書又は電子調書の送達後に中断した訴訟手続の受継の申立てがあった場合には、その判決をした裁判所は、その申立てについて裁判をしなければならない。 art-128/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-128/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-128/par-2 If a petition for the substitution of a party is filed during a continuance of litigation proceedings following the service of an electronic judgment or electronic record as prescribed in Article 255, paragraph (1) under the provisions of Article 255 (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 374, paragraph (2); the same applies in this paragraph), the court that reached the judgment in question must reach a judicial decision on the petition. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-128/par-2: 第二百五十五条 → 民事訴訟法 第二百五十五条 (Article 255), art-255 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-255 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-255 - art-128/par-2: 第三百七十四条第二項 → 民事訴訟法 第三百七十四条第二項 (Article 374, paragraph (2)), art-374/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-374/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-374/par-2 - art-128/par-2: この項 → 民事訴訟法 第百二十八条第二項 (Article 128, paragraph (2)), art-128/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-128/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-128/par-2 - art-128/par-2: 第二百五十五条第一項 → 民事訴訟法 第二百五十五条第一項 (Article 255, paragraph (1)), art-255/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-255/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-255/par-1 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民事執行法 別表第二 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/appdx-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/appdx-2 - 民事訴訟法 第百二十八条第二項（受継についての裁判） — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-128/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-128/par-2 - 民事訴訟法 附則第九条第一項（受継についての裁判に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/suppl-5041-48/art-9/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/suppl-5041-48/art-9/par-1 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 民事訴訟法 — the text in force from 2026-06-24 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/408AC0000000109/20260624_508AC0000000046), retrieved 2026-10-17 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Code of Civil Procedure — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4797/tb), retrieved 2026-10-17 - This site's parser, version 209 — 民事訴訟法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-17