# 人事訴訟法 / Personal Status Litigation Act — 第二十四条 (Article 24) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-status-litigation-act/art-24. Every law, and how to address a provision: https://japanlaw.org/llms.txt. The same laws as MCP tools (no sign-in): https://japanlaw.org/mcp. - Law: 人事訴訟法 (Personal Status Litigation Act), 平成十五年法律第百九号 - English title "Personal Status Litigation Act": 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: 第二十四条 (Article 24)（確定判決の効力が及ぶ者の範囲） — address `art-24` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-status-litigation-act/art-24 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-24 - 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. --- ### 第二十四条（確定判決の効力が及ぶ者の範囲） — (Scope of Persons Subject to the Effect of a Final and Binding Judgment) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-24 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-status-litigation-act/art-24 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-24 **第一項** 人事訴訟の確定判決は、民事訴訟法第百十五条第一項の規定にかかわらず、第三者に対してもその効力を有する。 art-24/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-status-litigation-act/art-24/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-24/par-1 Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 115, paragraph (1) of the Code of Civil Procedure, a final and binding judgment in personal status litigation is effective against third parties. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 民法第七百三十二条の規定に違反したことを理由として婚姻の取消しの請求がされた場合におけるその請求を棄却した確定判決は、前婚の配偶者に対しては、前項の規定にかかわらず、その前婚の配偶者がその請求に係る訴訟に参加したときに限り、その効力を有する。 art-24/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-status-litigation-act/art-24/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-24/par-2 Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding paragraph, if a claim has been filed to rescind a marriage due to violation of the provisions of Article 732 of the Civil Code, a final and binding judgment dismissing the claim with prejudice is effective against a spouse from an earlier marriage only if that spouse has intervened in the litigation involving that claim. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-24/par-1: 民事訴訟法第百十五条第一項 → 民事訴訟法 第百十五条第一項 (Article 115, paragraph (1)), art-115/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-115/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-115/par-1 - art-24/par-2: 民法第七百三十二条 → 民法 第七百三十二条 (Article 732), art-732 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-732 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-732 - art-24/par-2: 前項 → 人事訴訟法 第二十四条第一項 (Article 24, paragraph (1)), art-24/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-status-litigation-act/art-24/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-24/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 人事訴訟法 第二十四条第二項（確定判決の効力が及ぶ者の範囲） — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-status-litigation-act/art-24/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-24/par-2 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 人事訴訟法 — the text in force from 2026-06-24 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/415AC0000000109/20260624_508AC0000000046), retrieved 2026-11-02 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Personal Status Litigation Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/5166/tb), retrieved 2026-11-02 - This site's parser, version 220 — 人事訴訟法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-02