# 民事訴訟法 / Code of Civil Procedure — 第三百二十七条 (Article 327) - 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: 第三百二十七条 (Article 327)（特別上告） — address `art-327` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-327 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-327 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第三百二十七条（特別上告） — (Special Appeal to the Court of Last Resort) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-327 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-327 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-327 **第一項** 高等裁判所が上告審としてした終局判決に対しては、その判決に憲法の解釈の誤りがあることその他憲法の違反があることを理由とするときに限り、最高裁判所に更に上告をすることができる。 art-327/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-327/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-327/par-1 A further appeal may be filed with the Supreme Court against a final judgment entered by the high court as the final appellate court, but only on the grounds that the judgment involves an error in the interpretation of the Constitution or that it is otherwise unconstitutional. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の上告及びその上告審の訴訟手続には、その性質に反しない限り、第二審又は第一審の終局判決に対する上告及びその上告審の訴訟手続に関する規定を準用する。この場合において、第三百二十一条第一項中「原判決」とあるのは、「地方裁判所が第二審としてした終局判決（第三百十一条第二項の規定による上告があった場合にあっては、簡易裁判所の終局判決）」と読み替えるものとする。 art-327/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-327/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-327/par-2 Unless it is contrary to their nature, provisions concerning a final appeal and litigation proceedings in the final appellate instance against a final judgment by the court of second instance or the court of first instance apply mutatis mutandis to a final appeal as referred to in the preceding paragraph and litigation proceedings in the final appellate instance. This being the case, the phrase "a prior instance judgment" in Article 321, paragraph (1) is deemed to be replaced with "the final judgment entered by the district court as the court of second instance (or the final judgment entered by the summary court, if a final appeal under the provisions of Article 311, paragraph (2) is filed)". Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "Unless it is contrary to their nature, provisions concerning a final appeal and litigation proceedings in the final appellate instance against a final judgment by the court of second instance or the court of first instance apply mutatis mutandis to a final appeal as referred to in the preceding paragraph and litigation proceedings in the final appellate instance. This being the case, the phrase "a prior instance judgment" in Article 321, paragraph (1) is deemed to be replaced with "the final judgment entered by the district court as the court of second instance (or the final judgment entered by the summary court, if a final appeal under the provisions of Article 311, paragraph (2) is filed")." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4797/tb --- ## Cites - art-327/par-2: 前項 → 民事訴訟法 第三百二十七条第一項 (Article 327, paragraph (1)), art-327/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-327/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-327/par-1 - art-327/par-2: 第三百二十一条第一項 → 民事訴訟法 第三百二十一条第一項 (Article 321, paragraph (1)), art-321/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-321/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-321/par-1 - art-327/par-2: 第三百十一条第二項 → 民事訴訟法 第三百十一条第二項 (Article 311, paragraph (2)), art-311/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-311/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-311/par-2 ## Cited by 6 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民事訴訟法 第百十六条第一項（判決の確定時期） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-116/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-116/par-1 - 民事訴訟法 第三百二十七条第二項（特別上告） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-327/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-327/par-2 - 民事訴訟法 第三百三十六条第三項（特別抗告） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-336/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-336/par-3 - 民事訴訟法 第三百八十条第二項（異議後の判決に対する不服申立て） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-380/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-380/par-2 - 民事訴訟法 第四百三条第一項第一号（執行停止の裁判） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-403/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-403/par-1/item-1 - 民事訴訟法 第四百四条第一項（原裁判所による裁判） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-404/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-404/par-1 --- ## Sources - claude-opus-5-5 — Corrections to the Ministry of Justice's English of paragraphs, written 2026-10-18 - 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 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Code of Civil Procedure (民事訴訟法), Article 327, paragraph (2) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (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