# 民事訴訟法 / Code of Civil Procedure — 第二百八十八条 (Article 288) - 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: 第二百八十八条 (Article 288)（裁判長の控訴状審査権等） — address `art-288` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-288 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-288 - 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. --- ### 第二百八十八条（裁判長の控訴状審査権等） — (Presiding Judge's Authority to Examine a Petition for Appeal) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-288 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-288 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-288 **第一項** 第百三十七条の規定は控訴状が第二百八十六条第二項の規定に違反する場合について、第百三十七条の二の規定は民事訴訟費用等に関する法律の規定に従い控訴の提起の手数料を納付しない場合について、それぞれ準用する。 art-288/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-288/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-288/par-1 The provisions of Article 137 apply mutatis mutandis if a petition for appeal to the court of second instance is in violation of Article 286, paragraph (2), and the provisions of Article 137-2 apply mutatis mutandis if a person has not paid the fees for filing an appeal to the court of second instance in accordance with the provisions of the Act on the Costs of Civil Proceedings. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-288/par-1: 第百三十七条 → 民事訴訟法 第百三十七条 (Article 137), art-137 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-137 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-137 - art-288/par-1: 第二百八十六条第二項 → 民事訴訟法 第二百八十六条第二項 (Article 286, paragraph (2)), art-286/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-286/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-286/par-2 - art-288/par-1: 第百三十七条の二 → 民事訴訟法 第百三十七条の二 (Article 137-2), art-137-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-137-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-137-2 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民事訴訟法 第三百十四条第二項（上告提起の方式等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-314/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-314/par-2 - 民事訴訟法 附則第十二条第一項（訴えの提起の手数料の納付等がない場合に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/suppl-5041-48/art-12/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/suppl-5041-48/art-12/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