# 民事訴訟法 / Code of Civil Procedure — 第十九条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 19) - 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: 第十九条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 19)（控訴に関する経過措置） — address `suppl-4081-109/art-19` - 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-19 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/suppl-4081-109/art-19 - 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. --- ### 第十九条（控訴に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures Concerning Appeals caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4081-109/art-19 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/suppl-4081-109/art-19 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/suppl-4081-109/art-19 **第一項** 新法の施行前に言渡しがあった第一審の判決に対する控訴の提起の方式については、新法第二百八十六条第一項の規定にかかわらず、なお従前の例による。 suppl-4081-109/art-19/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/suppl-4081-109/art-19/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/suppl-4081-109/art-19/par-1 With regard to the formalities for filing an appeal to the court of second instance against a judgment of the court of first instance announced before the New Act comes into effect, the provisions then in force continue to govern, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 286, paragraph (1) of the New Act. machine translation, not official **第二項** 新法第二百八十七条の規定は、新法の施行前に言渡しがあった第一審の判決に対する控訴については、適用しない。 suppl-4081-109/art-19/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/suppl-4081-109/art-19/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/suppl-4081-109/art-19/par-2 The provisions of Article 287 of the New Act do not apply to an appeal against a judgment of the court of first instance announced before the New Act comes into effect. machine translation, not official **第三項** 新法第二百九十一条（新法において準用する場合を含む。）の規定は、新法の施行前に期日の呼出しに必要な費用の予納を命じた場合には、適用しない。 suppl-4081-109/art-19/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/suppl-4081-109/art-19/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/suppl-4081-109/art-19/par-3 The provisions of Article 291 of the New Act (including as applied mutatis mutandis under the New Act) do not apply if an order to prepay the expenses necessary for summoning the parties to appear for a court date was issued before the New Act comes into effect. machine translation, not official **第四項** 新法第三百十条（新法において準用する場合を含む。）の規定は、新法の施行前に控訴審の口頭弁論を終結した事件については、適用しない。 suppl-4081-109/art-19/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/suppl-4081-109/art-19/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/suppl-4081-109/art-19/par-4 The provisions of Article 310 of the New Act (including as applied mutatis mutandis under the New Act) do not apply to a case in which oral arguments in the second instance concluded 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 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch code-of-civil-procedure-20261017T235501-003, 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