# 民事訴訟法 / Code of Civil Procedure — 第四十一条 (Article 41) - 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: 第四十一条 (Article 41)（同時審判の申出がある共同訴訟） — address `art-41` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-41 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-41 - 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. --- ### 第四十一条（同時審判の申出がある共同訴訟） — (Joint Litigation Involving a Request for a Simultaneous Trial and Decision) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-41 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-41 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-41 **第一項** 共同被告の一方に対する訴訟の目的である権利と共同被告の他方に対する訴訟の目的である権利とが法律上併存し得ない関係にある場合において、原告の申出があったときは、弁論及び裁判は、分離しないでしなければならない。 art-41/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-41/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-41/par-1 If a right that is the subject matter of litigation for one codefendant and a right that is the subject matter of litigation for another codefendant cannot legally coexist and the plaintiff requests it, the court must hear oral arguments and reach a judicial decision without instituting separate litigation. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の申出は、控訴審の口頭弁論の終結の時までにしなければならない。 art-41/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-41/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-41/par-2 The plaintiff must make the request referred to in the preceding paragraph by the time of conclusion of oral arguments in the second instance. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 第一項の場合において、各共同被告に係る控訴事件が同一の控訴裁判所に各別に係属するときは、弁論及び裁判は、併合してしなければならない。 art-41/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-41/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-41/par-3 In a case as referred to in paragraph (1), if cases under appeal that each have a codefendant are pending separately before the same court of second instance, the court must hear oral arguments and reach a judicial decision after consolidating them. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-41/par-2: 前項 → 民事訴訟法 第四十一条第一項 (Article 41, paragraph (1)), art-41/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-41/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-41/par-1 - art-41/par-3: 第一項 → 民事訴訟法 第四十一条第一項 (Article 41, paragraph (1)), art-41/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-41/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-41/par-1 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民事訴訟法 第四十一条第二項（同時審判の申出がある共同訴訟） — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-41/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-41/par-2 - 民事訴訟法 第四十一条第三項（同時審判の申出がある共同訴訟） — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-41/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-41/par-3 - 民事訴訟法 第五十条第三項（義務承継人の訴訟引受け） — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-50/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-50/par-3 --- ## 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