# 民事訴訟法 / Code of Civil Procedure — 第二十一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 21) - 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: 第二十一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 21)（手形訴訟及び小切手訴訟における口頭弁論を経ない却下又は異議の申立てに関する経過措置） — address `suppl-5041-48/art-21` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/suppl-5041-48/art-21 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/suppl-5041-48/art-21 - 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. --- ### 第二十一条（手形訴訟及び小切手訴訟における口頭弁論を経ない却下又は異議の申立てに関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures Concerning Denial Without Oral Arguments and the Filing of Objections in Actions on Bills or Notes and Actions on Checks caption: machine translation, not official suppl-5041-48/art-21 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/suppl-5041-48/art-21 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/suppl-5041-48/art-21 **第一項** 第二条改正後民事訴訟法第三百五十五条第二項及び第三百五十七条（これらの規定を第二条改正後民事訴訟法第三百六十七条第二項において準用する場合を含む。）の規定は、施行日以後に提起される手形訴訟及び小切手訴訟における口頭弁論を経ない訴えの却下及び終局判決に対する異議申立てについて適用し、施行日前に提起された手形訴訟及び小切手訴訟における口頭弁論を経ない訴えの却下及び終局判決に対する異議申立てについては、なお従前の例による。 suppl-5041-48/art-21/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/suppl-5041-48/art-21/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/suppl-5041-48/art-21/par-1 The provisions of Article 355, paragraph (2) and Article 357 of the Code of Civil Procedure After the Article 2 Amendment (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 367, paragraph (2) of the Code of Civil Procedure After the Article 2 Amendment) apply to the denial of an action without oral arguments and to the filing of an objection against the final judgment in an action on a bill or note or action on a check that is filed on or after the Effective Date, and the provisions then in force continue to govern the denial of an action without oral arguments and the filing of an objection against the final judgment in an action on a bill or note or action on a check that was filed before the Effective Date. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-5041-48/art-21/par-1: 第二条改正後民事訴訟法第三百五十五条第二項 → 民事訴訟法 第三百五十五条第二項 (Article 355, paragraph (2)), art-355/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-355/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-355/par-2 - suppl-5041-48/art-21/par-1: 第三百五十七条 → 民事訴訟法 第三百五十七条 (Article 357), art-357 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-357 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-357 - suppl-5041-48/art-21/par-1: 第二条改正後民事訴訟法第三百六十七条第二項 → 民事訴訟法 第三百六十七条第二項 (Article 367, paragraph (2)), art-367/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-367/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-367/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 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch code-of-civil-procedure-20261017T235501-009, 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