# 民事訴訟法 / Code of Civil Procedure — 第六十五条 (Article 65) - 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: 第六十五条 (Article 65)（共同訴訟の場合の負担） — address `art-65` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-65 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-65 - 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. --- ### 第六十五条（共同訴訟の場合の負担） — (Bearing of Costs in Joint Litigation) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-65 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-65 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-65 **第一項** 共同訴訟人は、等しい割合で訴訟費用を負担する。ただし、裁判所は、事情により、共同訴訟人に連帯して訴訟費用を負担させ、又は他の方法により負担させることができる。 art-65/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-65/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-65/par-1 Co-litigants bear court costs equally; provided, however, that the court, depending on the circumstances, may have co-litigants bear court costs jointly and severally or in any other manner. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 裁判所は、前項の規定にかかわらず、権利の伸張又は防御に必要でない行為をした当事者に、その行為によって生じた訴訟費用を負担させることができる。 art-65/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-65/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-65/par-2 Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the court may have a party that has performed any act that was unnecessary for the expansion or defense of a right bear court costs incurred due to that act. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-65/par-2: 前項 → 民事訴訟法 第六十五条第一項 (Article 65, paragraph (1)), art-65/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-65/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-65/par-1 ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民事訴訟法 第六十五条第二項（共同訴訟の場合の負担） — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-65/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-65/par-2 - 民事訴訟法 第六十六条第一項（補助参加の場合の負担） — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-66/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-66/par-1 - 民事訴訟法 第七十三条第二項（訴訟が裁判及び和解によらないで完結した場合等の取扱い） — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-73/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-73/par-2 - 民事訴訟法 第二百五十八条第二項（裁判の脱漏） — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-258/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-258/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