# 民事訴訟法 / Code of Civil Procedure — 第三百三十九条 (Article 339) - 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: 第三百三十九条 (Article 339) — address `art-339` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-339 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-339 - 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. --- ### 第三百三十九条 art-339 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-339 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-339 **第一項** 判決の基本となる裁判について前条第一項に規定する事由がある場合（同項第四号から第七号までに掲げる事由がある場合にあっては、同条第二項に規定する場合に限る。）には、その裁判に対し独立した不服申立ての方法を定めているときにおいても、その事由を判決に対する再審の理由とすることができる。 art-339/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-339/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-339/par-1 If the circumstances prescribed in paragraph (1) of the preceding Article are present with regard to the judicial decision based on which a judgment is made (limited to the case prescribed in paragraph (2) of that Article if any of the circumstances stated in items (iv) through (vii) of that paragraph are present), such circumstances may be given as grounds for retrial in connection with the judgment, even if the means of filing an independent protest against that judicial decision have been specified. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-339/par-1: 前条第一項 → 民事訴訟法 第三百三十八条第一項 (Article 338, paragraph (1)), art-338/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-338/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-338/par-1 - art-339/par-1: 同項第四号から第七号まで → 民事訴訟法 第三百三十八条第一項第四号 (Article 338, paragraph (1), item (iv)), art-338/par-1/item-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-338/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-338/par-1/item-4 - art-339/par-1: 同項第四号から第七号まで → 民事訴訟法 第三百三十八条第一項第五号 (Article 338, paragraph (1), item (v)), art-338/par-1/item-5 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-338/par-1/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-338/par-1/item-5 - art-339/par-1: 同項第四号から第七号まで → 民事訴訟法 第三百三十八条第一項第六号 (Article 338, paragraph (1), item (vi)), art-338/par-1/item-6 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-338/par-1/item-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-338/par-1/item-6 - art-339/par-1: 同項第四号から第七号まで → 民事訴訟法 第三百三十八条第一項第七号 (Article 338, paragraph (1), item (vii)), art-338/par-1/item-7 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-338/par-1/item-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-338/par-1/item-7 - art-339/par-1: 同条第二項 → 民事訴訟法 第三百三十八条第二項 (Article 338, paragraph (2)), art-338/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-338/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-338/par-2 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民事訴訟法 第三百四十九条第二項（決定又は命令に対する再審） — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-349/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-349/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