# 民事訴訟法 / Code of Civil Procedure — 第二百八十条 (Article 280) - 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: 第二百八十条 (Article 280)（電子判決書の記録事項） — address `art-280` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-280 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-280 - 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. --- ### 第二百八十条（電子判決書の記録事項） — Particulars That Must Be Recorded in Electronic Judgments caption: machine translation, not official art-280 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-280 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-280 **第一項** 第二百五十二条第一項の規定により同項第二号の事実及び同項第三号の理由を記録する場合には、請求の趣旨及び原因の要旨、その原因の有無並びに請求を排斥する理由である抗弁の要旨を記録すれば足りる。 art-280/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-280/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-280/par-1 In recording, pursuant to the provisions of Article 252, paragraph (1), the facts referred to in item (ii) of that paragraph and the reasons referred to in item (iii) of that paragraph, it is sufficient to record the important points of the prayer for relief and of the statement of the claims, the existence or nonexistence of cause, and the important points of any defense which is the grounds for rejecting the claim. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-280/par-1: 第二百五十二条第一項 → 民事訴訟法 第二百五十二条第一項 (Article 252, paragraph (1)), art-252/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-252/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-252/par-1 - art-280/par-1: 同項第二号 → 民事訴訟法 第二百五十二条第一項第二号 (Article 252, paragraph (1), item (ii)), art-252/par-1/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-252/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-252/par-1/item-2 - art-280/par-1: 同項第三号 → 民事訴訟法 第二百五十二条第一項第三号 (Article 252, paragraph (1), item (iii)), art-252/par-1/item-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-252/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-252/par-1/item-3 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民事訴訟法 附則第十七条第一項（判決の言渡しの方式等に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/suppl-5041-48/art-17/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/suppl-5041-48/art-17/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 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch code-of-civil-procedure-20261017T235501-001, translated 2026-10-18 - This site's parser, version 209 — 民事訴訟法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-17