# 民事訴訟法 / Code of Civil Procedure — 第四十八条 (Article 48) - 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: 第四十八条 (Article 48)（訴訟脱退） — address `art-48` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-48 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-48 - 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. --- ### 第四十八条（訴訟脱退） — (Original Party's Withdrawal from Litigation) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-48 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-48 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-48 **第一項** 前条第一項の規定により自己の権利を主張するため訴訟に参加した者がある場合には、参加前の原告又は被告は、相手方の承諾を得て訴訟から脱退することができる。この場合において、判決は、脱退した当事者に対してもその効力を有する。 art-48/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-48/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-48/par-1 If a person has intervened in litigation pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) of the preceding Article in order to assert that person's own right, the plaintiff or defendant from prior to the intervention may withdraw from the litigation, with the consent of the adverse party. In such a case, the judgment on the litigation is also valid against the withdrawing party. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-48/par-1: 前条第一項 → 民事訴訟法 第四十七条第一項 (Article 47, paragraph (1)), art-47/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-47/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-47/par-1 ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民事訴訟法 第三十二条第二項第一号（被保佐人、被補助人及び法定代理人の訴訟行為の特則） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-32/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-32/par-2/item-1 - 民事訴訟法 第五十条第三項（義務承継人の訴訟引受け） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-50/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-50/par-3 - 民事訴訟法 第五十一条第一項（義務承継人の訴訟参加及び権利承継人の訴訟引受け） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-51/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-51/par-1 - 民事訴訟法 第五十五条第二項第二号（訴訟代理権の範囲） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-55/par-2/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-55/par-2/item-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