# 民事訴訟法 / Code of Civil Procedure — 第二百八十五条 (Article 285) - 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: 第二百八十五条 (Article 285)（控訴期間） — address `art-285` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-285 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-285 - 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. --- ### 第二百八十五条（控訴期間） — (Time Frame for Filing Appeals to the Court of Second Instance) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-285 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-285 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-285 **第一項** 控訴は、電子判決書又は第二百五十四条第二項の規定により当事者及び法定代理人、主文、請求並びに理由の要旨が記録された電子調書の送達を受けた日から二週間の不変期間内に提起しなければならない。ただし、その期間前に提起した控訴の効力を妨げない。 art-285/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-285/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-285/par-1 An appeal to the court of second instance must be filed within an inalterable time frame of two weeks from the day on which the electronic judgment or an electronic record indicating the parties and legal representatives, the main text, the claims, and the gist of the grounds pursuant to the provisions of Article 254, paragraph (2) is served; provided, however, that this does not preclude the validity of an appeal to the court of second instance filed prior to that time frame. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-285/par-1: 第二百五十四条第二項 → 民事訴訟法 第二百五十四条第二項 (Article 254, paragraph (2)), art-254/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-254/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-254/par-2 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民事執行法 別表第二 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/appdx-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/appdx-2 - 民事訴訟法 第二百五十五条第一項（電子判決書等の送達） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-255/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-255/par-1 - 民事訴訟法 附則第二十条第一項（控訴期間等に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/suppl-5041-48/art-20/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/suppl-5041-48/art-20/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