# 民事訴訟法 / Code of Civil Procedure — 第二百二十四条 (Article 224) - 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: 第二百二十四条 (Article 224)（当事者が文書提出命令に従わない場合等の効果） — address `art-224` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-224 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-224 - 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. --- ### 第二百二十四条（当事者が文書提出命令に従わない場合等の効果） — (Effect of a Party's Non-Compliance with an Order to Submit a Document) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-224 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-224 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-224 **第一項** 当事者が文書提出命令に従わないときは、裁判所は、当該文書の記載に関する相手方の主張を真実と認めることができる。 art-224/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-224/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-224/par-1 If a party does not comply with an order to submit a document, the court may find the adverse party's allegations concerning the details of that document to be true. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 当事者が相手方の使用を妨げる目的で提出の義務がある文書を滅失させ、その他これを使用することができないようにしたときも、前項と同様とする。 art-224/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-224/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-224/par-2 The provisions of the preceding paragraph also apply if a party, for the purpose of preventing the adverse party from using it, has caused a document that there is an obligation to submit to be lost or otherwise unusable. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 前二項に規定する場合において、相手方が、当該文書の記載に関して具体的な主張をすること及び当該文書により証明すべき事実を他の証拠により証明することが著しく困難であるときは、裁判所は、その事実に関する相手方の主張を真実と認めることができる。 art-224/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-224/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-224/par-3 In the cases prescribed in the preceding two paragraphs, if it is extremely difficult for the adverse party to make specific allegations in connection with the details of that document and to prove, by other evidence, a fact that is to be proven by the document, the court may find that the adverse party's allegations concerning that fact are true. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-224/par-2: 前項 → 民事訴訟法 第二百二十四条第一項 (Article 224, paragraph (1)), art-224/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-224/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-224/par-1 - art-224/par-3: 前二項 → 民事訴訟法 第二百二十四条第一項 (Article 224, paragraph (1)), art-224/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-224/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-224/par-1 - art-224/par-3: 前二項 → 民事訴訟法 第二百二十四条第二項 (Article 224, paragraph (2)), art-224/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-224/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-224/par-2 ## Cited by 6 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 労働審判法 第十七条第二項（証拠調べ等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-tribunal-act/art-17/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000045/art-17/par-2 - 民事訴訟法 第二百二十四条第二項（当事者が文書提出命令に従わない場合等の効果） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-224/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-224/par-2 - 民事訴訟法 第二百二十四条第三項（当事者が文書提出命令に従わない場合等の効果） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-224/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-224/par-3 - 民事訴訟法 第二百二十九条第二項（筆跡等の対照による証明） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-229/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-229/par-2 - 民事訴訟法 第二百三十一条の三第一項（書証の規定の準用等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-231-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-231-3/par-1 - 民事訴訟法 第二百三十二条第一項（検証の目的の提示等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-232/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-232/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