# 民事訴訟法 / Code of Civil Procedure — 第二百九十一条 (Article 291) - 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: 第二百九十一条 (Article 291)（呼出費用の予納がない場合の控訴の却下） — address `art-291` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-291 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-291 - 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. --- ### 第二百九十一条（呼出費用の予納がない場合の控訴の却下） — (Denial of Appeals When Expenses for Summonses Have Not Been Prepaid) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-291 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-291 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-291 **第一項** 控訴裁判所は、民事訴訟費用等に関する法律の規定に従い当事者に対する期日の呼出しに必要な費用の予納を相当の期間を定めて控訴人に命じた場合において、その予納がないときは、決定で、控訴を却下することができる。 art-291/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-291/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-291/par-1 If the court of second instance has specified a reasonable time frame and ordered the appellant to prepay the necessary expenses for summoning the parties to appear for a court date in accordance with the provisions of the Act on the Costs of Civil Proceedings, but those expenses have not been prepaid, the court may rule to deny the appeal, in the form of a ruling. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の決定に対しては、即時抗告をすることができる。 art-291/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-291/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-291/par-2 An immediate appeal may be filed against a ruling as referred to in the preceding paragraph. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-291/par-2: 前項 → 民事訴訟法 第二百九十一条第一項 (Article 291, paragraph (1)), art-291/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-291/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-291/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民事訴訟法 第二百九十一条第二項（呼出費用の予納がない場合の控訴の却下） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-291/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-291/par-2 --- ## 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