# 民事訴訟法 / Code of Civil Procedure — 第二百四十三条 (Article 243) - 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: 第二百四十三条 (Article 243)（終局判決） — address `art-243` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-243 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-243 - 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. --- ### 第二百四十三条（終局判決） — (Final Judgment) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-243 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-243 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-243 **第一項** 裁判所は、訴訟が裁判をするのに熟したときは、終局判決をする。 art-243/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-243/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-243/par-1 When litigation has been sufficiently developed to allow the court to reach a judicial decision, the court enters a final judgment. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 裁判所は、訴訟の一部が裁判をするのに熟したときは、その一部について終局判決をすることができる。 art-243/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-243/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-243/par-2 If a part of litigation has been sufficiently developed to allow the court to reach a judicial decision, the court may enter a final judgment with regard to that part. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 前項の規定は、口頭弁論の併合を命じた数個の訴訟中その一が裁判をするのに熟した場合及び本訴又は反訴が裁判をするのに熟した場合について準用する。 art-243/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-243/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-243/par-3 The provisions of the preceding paragraph apply mutatis mutandis if one of the several pieces of litigation for which the consolidation of oral arguments has been ordered, has been sufficiently developed to allow a judicial decision to be reached, or if the principal action or counterclaim has been sufficiently developed to allow a judicial decision to be reached. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-243/par-3: 前項 → 民事訴訟法 第二百四十三条第二項 (Article 243, paragraph (2)), art-243/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-243/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-243/par-2 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民事訴訟法 第二百四十三条第三項（終局判決） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-243/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-243/par-3 --- ## 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