# 民事訴訟法 / Code of Civil Procedure — 第二百七十四条 (Article 274) - 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: 第二百七十四条 (Article 274)（反訴の提起に基づく移送） — address `art-274` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-274 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-274 - 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. --- ### 第二百七十四条（反訴の提起に基づく移送） — (Transfer Based on the Filing of a Counterclaim) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-274 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-274 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-274 **第一項** 被告が反訴で地方裁判所の管轄に属する請求をした場合において、相手方の申立てがあるときは、簡易裁判所は、決定で、本訴及び反訴を地方裁判所に移送しなければならない。この場合においては、第二十二条の規定を準用する。 art-274/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-274/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-274/par-1 If the defendant makes a claim in a counterclaim that is subject to the jurisdiction of the district court, the summary court, at the petition of the adverse party, must transfer the principal action and counterclaim to the district court in the form of a ruling. In such a case, the provisions of Article 22 apply mutatis mutandis. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の決定に対しては、不服を申し立てることができない。 art-274/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-274/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-274/par-2 No appeal may be entered against the ruling stated in the preceding paragraph. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-274/par-1: 第二十二条 → 民事訴訟法 第二十二条 (Article 22), art-22 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-22 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-22 - art-274/par-2: 前項 → 民事訴訟法 第二百七十四条第一項 (Article 274, paragraph (1)), art-274/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-274/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-274/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民事訴訟法 第二百七十四条第二項（反訴の提起に基づく移送） — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-274/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-274/par-2 --- ## 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