# 民事訴訟法 / Code of Civil Procedure — 第百十三条 (Article 113) - 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: 第百十三条 (Article 113)（公示送達による意思表示の到達） — address `art-113` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-113 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-113 - 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. --- ### 第百十三条（公示送達による意思表示の到達） — (Arrival of a Manifestation of Intention Through Service by Publication) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-113 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-113 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-113 **第一項** 訴訟の当事者が相手方の所在を知ることができない場合において、相手方に対する公示送達がされた書類又は電磁的記録に、その相手方に対しその訴訟の目的である請求又は防御の方法に関する意思表示をする旨の記載又は記録があるときは、その意思表示は、第百十一条の規定による措置を開始した日から二週間を経過した時に、相手方に到達したものとみなす。この場合においては、民法第九十八条第三項ただし書の規定を準用する。 art-113/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-113/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-113/par-1 If a party to litigation is unable to learn the whereabouts of the adverse party and a document or electronic or magnetic record served by publication on the adverse party contains a statement or record indicating that the party is manifestating their intention to the adverse party concerning the claim that is the subject matter of litigation or concerning the means of defense, the manifestation of that intention is deemed to reach the adverse party once two weeks have passed since the day on which the measures under the provisions of Article 111 were commenced. The proviso to Article 98, paragraph (3) of the Civil Code applies mutatis mutandis in such a case. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-113/par-1: 第百十一条 → 民事訴訟法 第百十一条 (Article 111), art-111 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-111 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-111 - art-113/par-1: 民法第九十八条第三項 → 民法 第九十八条第三項 (Article 98, paragraph (3)), art-98/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-98/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-98/par-3 ## Cited by 5 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 会社法 第八百八十三条第一項（裁判書の送達） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-883/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-883/par-1 - 民事執行法 別表第一 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/appdx-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/appdx-1 - 民事執行法 別表第二 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/appdx-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/appdx-2 - 破産法 別表第一 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/appdx-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/appdx-1 - 配偶者からの暴力の防止及び被害者の保護等に関する法律 第二十一条第一項（民事訴訟法の準用） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/spousal-violence-act/art-21/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0100000031/art-21/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