# 民事訴訟法 / Code of Civil Procedure — 第三百二十一条 (Article 321) - 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: 第三百二十一条 (Article 321)（原判決の確定した事実の拘束） — address `art-321` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-321 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-321 - 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. --- ### 第三百二十一条（原判決の確定した事実の拘束） — (Binding Force of Facts Found in a Prior Instance Judgment) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-321 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-321 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-321 **第一項** 原判決において適法に確定した事実は、上告裁判所を拘束する。 art-321/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-321/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-321/par-1 Lawful findings of fact in a prior instance judgment are binding on the final appellate court. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 第三百十一条第二項の規定による上告があった場合には、上告裁判所は、原判決における事実の確定が法律に違反したことを理由として、その判決を破棄することができない。 art-321/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-321/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-321/par-2 If a final appeal under the provisions of Article 311, paragraph (2) is filed, the final appellate court may not reverse the prior instance judgment on the grounds that the findings of fact in the judgment are in violation of the law. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-321/par-2: 第三百十一条第二項 → 民事訴訟法 第三百十一条第二項 (Article 311, paragraph (2)), art-311/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-311/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-311/par-2 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民事訴訟法 第三百二十二条第一項（職権調査事項についての適用除外） — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-322/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-322/par-1 - 民事訴訟法 第三百二十七条第二項（特別上告） — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-327/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-327/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