# 民事訴訟法 / Code of Civil Procedure — 第三百三十一条 (Article 331) - 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: 第三百三十一条 (Article 331)（控訴又は上告の規定の準用） — address `art-331` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-331 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-331 - 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. --- ### 第三百三十一条（控訴又は上告の規定の準用） — (Mutatis Mutandis Application of Provisions on Appeals to the Court of Second Instance and Final Appeals) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-331 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-331 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-331 **第一項** 抗告及び抗告裁判所の訴訟手続には、その性質に反しない限り、第一章の規定を準用する。ただし、前条の抗告及びこれに関する訴訟手続には、前章の規定中第二審又は第一審の終局判決に対する上告及びその上告審の訴訟手続に関する規定を準用する。 art-331/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-331/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-331/par-1 The provisions of Chapter I, unless it is contrary to their nature, apply mutatis mutandis to an appeal against a ruling and to litigation proceedings in the court in charge of an appeal against a ruling; provided, however, that with regard to the appeal against a ruling as referred to in the preceding Article and litigation proceedings for the appeal, the provisions of the preceding Chapter concerning a final appeal against the final judgment of the court of second instance or the court of first instance and concerning litigation proceedings in the final appellate instance apply mutatis mutandis. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-331/par-1: 前条 → 民事訴訟法 第三百三十条 (Article 330), art-330 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-330 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-330 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民事訴訟法 附則第十二条第一項（訴えの提起の手数料の納付等がない場合に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/suppl-5041-48/art-12/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/suppl-5041-48/art-12/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