# 民事訴訟法 / Code of Civil Procedure — 第百五条 (Article 105) - 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: 第百五条 (Article 105)（出会送達） — address `art-105` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-105 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-105 - 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. --- ### 第百五条（出会送達） — (Service of Persons Wherever They May Be Found) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-105 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-105 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-105 **第一項** 前二条の規定にかかわらず、送達を受けるべき者で日本国内に住所等を有することが明らかでないもの（前条第一項前段の規定による届出をした者を除く。）に対する書類の送達は、その者に出会った場所においてすることができる。日本国内に住所等を有することが明らかな者又は同項前段の規定による届出をした者が書類の送達を受けることを拒まないときも、同様とする。 art-105/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-105/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-105/par-1 Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding two Articles, a person who is to be served with documents but who does not manifestly have an address in Japan (excluding one that has submitted a notification pursuant to the provisions of the first sentence of paragraph (1) of the preceding Article) may be served wherever the person effecting the service finds the person who is to be served. The same applies if a person who clearly has an address in Japan or a person who has submitted a notification pursuant to the provisions of the first sentence of that paragraph does not refuse to be served with the documents. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-105/par-1: 前二条 → 民事訴訟法 第百三条 (Article 103), art-103 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-103 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-103 - art-105/par-1: 前二条 → 民事訴訟法 第百四条 (Article 104), art-104 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-104 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-104 - art-105/par-1: 前条第一項 → 民事訴訟法 第百四条第一項 (Article 104, paragraph (1)), art-104/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-104/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-104/par-1 ## Cited by 6 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 不当景品類及び不当表示防止法 第四十三条第一項（送達に関する民事訴訟法の準用） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/premiums-and-representations-act/art-43/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/337AC0000000134/art-43/par-1 - 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第百五十条第一項（権限の委任） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-150/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-150/par-1 - 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第百六十二条第一項（送達に関する民事訴訟法の準用） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-162/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-162/par-1 - 民事訴訟法 第百四条第三項第二号（送達場所等の届出） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-104/par-3/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-104/par-3/item-2 - 特定商取引に関する法律 第六十六条の四第一項（送達に関する民事訴訟法の準用） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/specified-commercial-transactions-act/art-66-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/351AC0000000057/art-66-4/par-1 - 特定電気通信による情報の流通によって発生する権利侵害等への対処に関する法律 第三十二条第一項（送達に関する民事訴訟法の準用） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/information-distribution-platform-act/art-32/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000137/art-32/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