# 民事訴訟法 / Code of Civil Procedure — 第六十三条 (Article 63) - 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: 第六十三条 (Article 63)（訴訟を遅滞させた場合の負担） — address `art-63` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-63 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-63 - 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. --- ### 第六十三条（訴訟を遅滞させた場合の負担） — (Bearing of Costs: Delay in Litigation) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-63 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-63 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-63 **第一項** 当事者が適切な時期に攻撃若しくは防御の方法を提出しないことにより、又は期日若しくは期間の不遵守その他当事者の責めに帰すべき事由により訴訟を遅滞させたときは、裁判所は、その当事者に、その勝訴の場合においても、遅滞によって生じた訴訟費用の全部又は一部を負担させることができる。 art-63/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-63/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-63/par-1 If a party delays litigation due to a failure to present allegations or evidence in a timely manner, failure to keep a court date or observe a time frame, or any other grounds attributable to that party, the court may have that party bear the whole or part of court costs incurred due to the delay, even if that party wins the case. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民事訴訟法 第六十六条第一項（補助参加の場合の負担） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-66/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-66/par-1 - 民事訴訟法 第七十三条第二項（訴訟が裁判及び和解によらないで完結した場合等の取扱い） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-73/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-73/par-2 - 民事訴訟法 第二百五十八条第二項（裁判の脱漏） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-258/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-258/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