# 民事訴訟法 / Code of Civil Procedure — 第百四十七条 (Article 147) - 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: 第百四十七条 (Article 147)（裁判上の請求による時効の完成猶予等） — address `art-147` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-147 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-147 - 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. --- ### 第百四十七条（裁判上の請求による時効の完成猶予等） — (Postponement of the Expiration of the Prescription Period by Judicial Claim) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-147 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-147 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-147 **第一項** 訴えが提起されたとき、又は第百四十三条第二項（第百四十四条第三項及び第百四十五条第四項において準用する場合を含む。）の書面が裁判所に提出されたときは、その時に時効の完成猶予又は法律上の期間の遵守のために必要な裁判上の請求があったものとする。 art-147/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-147/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-147/par-1 The necessary judicial claim to postpone the expiration of the prescription period or to comply with a statutory time limit is considered to have been filed at the time when an action is filed, or at the time when the paper document referred to in Article 143, paragraph (2) (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 144, paragraph (3) and Article 145, paragraph (4)) is submitted to the court. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-147/par-1: 第百四十三条第二項 → 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-147/par-1: 第百四十四条第三項 → 民事訴訟法 第百四十四条第三項 (Article 144, paragraph (3)), 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 - art-147/par-1: 第百四十五条第四項 → 民事訴訟法 第百四十五条第四項 (Article 145, paragraph (4)), art-145/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-145/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-145/par-4 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民事訴訟法 第三百五十五条第二項（口頭弁論を経ない訴えの却下） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-355/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-355/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 - This site's parser, version 209 — 民事訴訟法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-17