# 民事訴訟法 / Code of Civil Procedure — 第十八条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 18) - 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: 第十八条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 18)（訴えの取下げ等の擬制に関する経過措置） — address `suppl-4081-109/art-18` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/suppl-4081-109/art-18 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/suppl-4081-109/art-18 - 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. --- ### 第十八条（訴えの取下げ等の擬制に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures Concerning Constructive Withdrawal of an Action, etc. caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4081-109/art-18 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/suppl-4081-109/art-18 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/suppl-4081-109/art-18 **第一項** 新法の施行前の口頭弁論の期日に当事者双方が出頭せず、又は弁論をしないで退廷した場合には、訴え、控訴若しくは上告の取下げ又は手形訴訟若しくは小切手訴訟の終局判決に対する異議の取下げがあったものとみなすための期間については、新法第二百六十三条前段（新法において準用する場合を含む。）の規定にかかわらず、なお従前の例による。 suppl-4081-109/art-18/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/suppl-4081-109/art-18/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/suppl-4081-109/art-18/par-1 If, on a date for oral arguments before the New Act comes into effect, both parties failed to appear, or left the courtroom without presenting an oral argument, the provisions then in force continue to govern the period for deeming that an action, appeal or final appeal has been withdrawn, or that an objection to a final judgment in an action on a bill or note or an action on a check has been withdrawn, notwithstanding the first sentence of Article 263 of the New Act (including as applied mutatis mutandis under the New Act). machine translation, not official **第二項** 新法第二百六十三条後段（新法において準用する場合を含む。）の規定は、新法の施行前の口頭弁論の期日における当事者の不出頭又は弁論をしないでした退廷については、適用しない。 suppl-4081-109/art-18/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/suppl-4081-109/art-18/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/suppl-4081-109/art-18/par-2 The second sentence of Article 263 of the New Act (including as applied mutatis mutandis under the New Act) does not apply to a party's failure to appear, or leaving the courtroom without presenting an oral argument, on a date for oral arguments before the New Act comes into effect. machine translation, not official ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民事訴訟法 附則第二十六条第一項（最高裁判所規則への委任） — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/suppl-4081-109/art-26/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/suppl-4081-109/art-26/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 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch code-of-civil-procedure-20261017T235501-002, translated 2026-10-18 - This site's parser, version 209 — 民事訴訟法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-17