# 民事訴訟法 / Code of Civil Procedure — 第三百六十四条 (Article 364) - 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: 第三百六十四条 (Article 364)（事件の差戻し） — address `art-364` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-364 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-364 - 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. --- ### 第三百六十四条（事件の差戻し） — (Remand of a Case) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-364 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-364 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-364 **第一項** 控訴裁判所は、異議を不適法として却下した第一審判決を取り消す場合には、事件を第一審裁判所に差し戻さなければならない。ただし、事件につき更に弁論をする必要がないときは、この限りでない。 art-364/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-364/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-364/par-1 If the court of second instance sets aside the judgment in the first instance denying an objection as not in accordance with the law, it must remand the case to the court of first instance; provided, however, that this does not apply if additional oral arguments in the case are unnecessary. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民事訴訟法 第三百六十七条第二項（小切手訴訟） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-367/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-367/par-2 - 民事訴訟法 第三百八十一条の七第二項（異議） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-381-7/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-381-7/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