# 民事訴訟法 / Code of Civil Procedure — 第七十二条 (Article 72) - 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: 第七十二条 (Article 72)（和解の場合の費用額の確定手続） — address `art-72` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-72 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-72 - 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. --- ### 第七十二条（和解の場合の費用額の確定手続） — (Procedures for Fixing the Amount of Costs in a Settlement) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-72 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-72 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-72 **第一項** 当事者が裁判所において和解をした場合において、和解の費用又は訴訟費用の負担を定め、その額を定めなかったときは、その額は、申立てにより、第一審裁判所（第二百七十五条の和解にあっては、和解が成立した裁判所）の裁判所書記官が定める。この場合においては、前条第二項から第八項までの規定を準用する。 art-72/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-72/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-72/par-1 If the parties reach a court settlement and establish how settlement costs or court costs will be borne but do not fix the amount of these costs, their amount is fixed, upon petition, by the court clerk of the court of first instance (for a settlement as referred to in Article 275, the court where the settlement is established). In such a case, the provisions of paragraphs (2) through (8) of the preceding Article apply mutatis mutandis. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-72/par-1: 第二百七十五条 → 民事訴訟法 第二百七十五条 (Article 275), art-275 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-275 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-275 - art-72/par-1: 前条第二項から第八項まで → 民事訴訟法 第七十一条第二項 (Article 71, paragraph (2)), art-71/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-71/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-71/par-2 - art-72/par-1: 前条第二項から第八項まで → 民事訴訟法 第七十一条第三項 (Article 71, paragraph (3)), art-71/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-71/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-71/par-3 - art-72/par-1: 前条第二項から第八項まで → 民事訴訟法 第七十一条第四項 (Article 71, paragraph (4)), art-71/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-71/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-71/par-4 - art-72/par-1: 前条第二項から第八項まで → 民事訴訟法 第七十一条第五項 (Article 71, paragraph (5)), art-71/par-5 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-71/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-71/par-5 - art-72/par-1: 前条第二項から第八項まで → 民事訴訟法 第七十一条第六項 (Article 71, paragraph (6)), art-71/par-6 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-71/par-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-71/par-6 - art-72/par-1: 前条第二項から第八項まで → 民事訴訟法 第七十一条第七項 (Article 71, paragraph (7)), art-71/par-7 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-71/par-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-71/par-7 - art-72/par-1: 前条第二項から第八項まで → 民事訴訟法 第七十一条第八項 (Article 71, paragraph (8)), art-71/par-8 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-71/par-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-71/par-8 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民事訴訟法 第七十四条第一項（費用額の確定処分の更正） — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-74/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-74/par-1 - 民事訴訟法 第八十五条第一項（猶予された費用等の取立方法） — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-85/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-85/par-1 - 民事訴訟法 附則第二条第一項（訴訟費用額の確定手続に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/suppl-5041-48/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/suppl-5041-48/art-2/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