# 民事訴訟法 / Code of Civil Procedure — 第四十九条 (Article 49) - 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: 第四十九条 (Article 49)（権利承継人の訴訟参加の場合における時効の完成猶予等） — address `art-49` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-49 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-49 - 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. --- ### 第四十九条（権利承継人の訴訟参加の場合における時効の完成猶予等） — (Postponement of the Expiration of the Prescription Period If the Transferee of a Right Intervenes in Litigation) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-49 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-49 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-49 **第一項** 訴訟の係属中その訴訟の目的である権利の全部又は一部を譲り受けたことを主張する者が第四十七条第一項の規定により訴訟参加をしたときは、時効の完成猶予に関しては、当該訴訟の係属の初めに、裁判上の請求があったものとみなす。 art-49/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-49/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-49/par-1 If, while litigation is pending, a person asserting that the whole or part of the rights that are the subject of that litigation have been transferred to them intervenes in the litigation pursuant to the provisions of Article 47, paragraph (1) a judicial claim is deemed to have been filed at the time when the litigation first became pending, as it concerns postponing the expiration of the prescription period. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項に規定する場合には、その参加は、訴訟の係属の初めに遡って法律上の期間の遵守の効力を生ずる。 art-49/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-49/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-49/par-2 In a case provided for in the preceding paragraph, the intervention gives rise to the effect of compliance with statutory time frames, retroactive to the time when the litigation first became pending. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-49/par-1: 第四十七条第一項 → 民事訴訟法 第四十七条第一項 (Article 47, paragraph (1)), art-47/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-47/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-47/par-1 - art-49/par-2: 前項 → 民事訴訟法 第四十九条第一項 (Article 49, paragraph (1)), art-49/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-49/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-49/par-1 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民事訴訟法 第四十九条第二項（権利承継人の訴訟参加の場合における時効の完成猶予等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-49/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-49/par-2 - 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 - 民事訴訟法 第五十一条第一項（義務承継人の訴訟参加及び権利承継人の訴訟引受け） — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-51/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-51/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