# 民事訴訟法 / Code of Civil Procedure — 第百四十四条 (Article 144) - 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: 第百四十四条 (Article 144)（選定者に係る請求の追加） — address `art-144` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-144 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-144 - 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. --- ### 第百四十四条（選定者に係る請求の追加） — (Addition of Claims on Behalf of or Concerning an Appointing Party) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-144 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-144 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-144 **第一項** 第三十条第三項の規定による原告となるべき者の選定があった場合には、その者は、口頭弁論の終結に至るまで、その選定者のために請求の追加をすることができる。 art-144/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-144/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-144/par-1 If a person has been appointed to act as plaintiff as under the provisions of Article 30, paragraph (3), that person may add a claim on behalf of the appointing party, up until the time that oral arguments reach their conclusion. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 第三十条第三項の規定による被告となるべき者の選定があった場合には、原告は、口頭弁論の終結に至るまで、その選定者に係る請求の追加をすることができる。 art-144/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-144/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-144/par-2 If a person has been appointed to act as defendant as under the provisions of Article 30, paragraph (3), the plaintiff may add a claim concerning a person who has appointed that person to act as defendant up until the time that oral arguments reach a conclusion. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 前条第一項ただし書及び第二項から第四項までの規定は、前二項の請求の追加について準用する。 art-144/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-144/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-144/par-3 The provisions of the proviso to paragraph (1) of the preceding Article and paragraphs (2) through (4) of that paragraph apply mutatis mutandis to the addition of a claim as referred to in the preceding two paragraphs. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-144/par-1: 第三十条第三項 → 民事訴訟法 第三十条第三項 (Article 30, paragraph (3)), art-30/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-30/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-30/par-3 - art-144/par-2: 第三十条第三項 → 民事訴訟法 第三十条第三項 (Article 30, paragraph (3)), art-30/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-30/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-30/par-3 - art-144/par-3: 前条第一項 → 民事訴訟法 第百四十三条第一項 (Article 143, paragraph (1)), art-143/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-143/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-143/par-1 - art-144/par-3: 第二項から第四項まで → 民事訴訟法 第百四十三条第二項 (Article 143, paragraph (2)), art-143/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-143/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-143/par-2 - art-144/par-3: 第二項から第四項まで → 民事訴訟法 第百四十三条第三項 (Article 143, paragraph (3)), art-143/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-143/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-143/par-3 - art-144/par-3: 第二項から第四項まで → 民事訴訟法 第百四十三条第四項 (Article 143, paragraph (4)), art-143/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-143/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-143/par-4 - art-144/par-3: 前二項 → 民事訴訟法 第百四十四条第一項 (Article 144, paragraph (1)), art-144/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-144/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-144/par-1 - art-144/par-3: 前二項 → 民事訴訟法 第百四十四条第二項 (Article 144, paragraph (2)), art-144/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-144/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-144/par-2 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民事訴訟法 第百四十四条第三項（選定者に係る請求の追加） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-144/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-144/par-3 - 民事訴訟法 第百四十七条第一項（裁判上の請求による時効の完成猶予等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-147/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-147/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