# 民事訴訟法 / Code of Civil Procedure — 第二百六十四条 (Article 264) - 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: 第二百六十四条 (Article 264)（和解条項案の書面による受諾） — address `art-264` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-264 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-264 - 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. --- ### 第二百六十四条（和解条項案の書面による受諾） — (Written Acceptance of Proposed Terms of Settlement) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-264 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-264 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-264 **第一項** 当事者の一方が出頭することが困難であると認められる場合において、その当事者があらかじめ裁判所又は受命裁判官若しくは受託裁判官から提示された和解条項案を受諾する旨の書面を提出し、他の当事者が口頭弁論等の期日に出頭してその和解条項案を受諾したときは、当事者間に和解が調ったものとみなす。 art-264/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-264/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-264/par-1 If it is found to be difficult for one of the parties to appear, and if that party submits a paper document indicating their acceptance of the proposed terms of settlement presented in advance by the court or by an authorized or commissioned judge, and the other party appears on a proceeding date and accepts the proposed terms of settlement, a settlement is deemed to have been reached between the parties. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 当事者双方が出頭することが困難であると認められる場合において、当事者双方があらかじめ裁判所又は受命裁判官若しくは受託裁判官から和解が成立すべき日時を定めて提示された和解条項案を受諾する旨の書面を提出し、その日時が経過したときは、その日時に、当事者間に和解が調ったものとみなす。 art-264/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-264/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-264/par-2 If it is found to be difficult for both parties to appear, and if both parties submit a paper document indicating their acceptance of the proposed terms of settlement presented in advance by the court or by an authorized or commissioned judge designating the date when the settlement is to be reached and the designated date passes, a settlement is deemed to have been reached between the parties on the designated date. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "If it is been found to be difficult for both parties to appear, and if both parties submit a paper document indicating their acceptance of the proposed terms of settlement presented in advance by the court or by an authorized or commissioned judge designating the date when the settlement is to be reached and the designated date passes, a settlement is deemed to have been reached between the parties on the designated date." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4797/tb ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民事訴訟法 第九十一条第二項（非電磁的訴訟記録の閲覧等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-91/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-91/par-2 - 民事訴訟法 第二百七十五条第四項（訴え提起前の和解） — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-275/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-275/par-4 --- ## Sources - claude-opus-5-5 — Corrections to the Ministry of Justice's English of paragraphs, written 2026-10-18 - 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 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Code of Civil Procedure (民事訴訟法), Article 264, paragraph (2) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (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