# 民事訴訟法 / Code of Civil Procedure — 第三百七十四条 (Article 374) - 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: 第三百七十四条 (Article 374)（判決の言渡し） — address `art-374` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-374 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-374 - 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. --- ### 第三百七十四条（判決の言渡し） — (Rendition of Judgment) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-374 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-374 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-374 **第一項** 判決の言渡しは、相当でないと認める場合を除き、口頭弁論の終結後直ちにする。 art-374/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-374/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-374/par-1 Unless the court finds it to be inappropriate, the court renders a judgment immediately after the conclusion of oral arguments. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の場合には、判決の言渡しは、電子判決書に基づかないですることができる。この場合においては、第二百五十四条第二項及び第二百五十五条の規定を準用する。 art-374/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-374/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-374/par-2 In a case as referred to in the preceding paragraph, the court may render its judgment without basing this on the electronic judgment. In such a case, the provisions of Article 254, paragraph (2) and Article 255 apply mutatis mutandis. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-374/par-2: 前項 → 民事訴訟法 第三百七十四条第一項 (Article 374, paragraph (1)), art-374/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-374/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-374/par-1 - art-374/par-2: 第二百五十四条第二項 → 民事訴訟法 第二百五十四条第二項 (Article 254, paragraph (2)), art-254/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-254/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-254/par-2 - art-374/par-2: 第二百五十五条 → 民事訴訟法 第二百五十五条 (Article 255), art-255 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-255 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-255 ## Cited by 5 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民事執行法 別表第二 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/appdx-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/appdx-2 - 民事訴訟法 第百二十八条第二項（受継についての裁判） — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-128/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-128/par-2 - 民事訴訟法 第三百七十四条第二項（判決の言渡し） — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-374/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-374/par-2 - 民事訴訟法 第三百七十八条第一項（異議） — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-378/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-378/par-1 - 民事訴訟法 附則第二十二条第一項（少額訴訟の判決の言渡し等に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/suppl-5041-48/art-22/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/suppl-5041-48/art-22/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