# 民事訴訟法 / Code of Civil Procedure — 第二十条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 20) - 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: 第二十条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 20)（最高裁判所にする上告に関する経過措置） — address `suppl-4081-109/art-20` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/suppl-4081-109/art-20 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/suppl-4081-109/art-20 - 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. --- ### 第二十条（最高裁判所にする上告に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures Concerning Final Appeals to the Supreme Court caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4081-109/art-20 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/suppl-4081-109/art-20 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/suppl-4081-109/art-20 **第一項** 新法の施行前に、第二審又は第一審である高等裁判所における口頭弁論が終結した事件及び地方裁判所が第一審としてした判決に対して上告をする権利を留保して控訴をしない旨の合意をした事件についての最高裁判所にする上告及びその上告審の訴訟手続については、新法第三百十二条及び第三百二十五条の規定にかかわらず、なお従前の例によるものとし、新法第三百十七条第二項及び第三百十八条の規定は、適用しない。 suppl-4081-109/art-20/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/suppl-4081-109/art-20/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/suppl-4081-109/art-20/par-1 With regard to a final appeal to the Supreme Court, and the litigation proceedings in the final appellate instance for that final appeal, in a case in which, before the New Act comes into effect, oral arguments concluded in a high court as the court of second instance or the court of first instance, and in a case in which, before the New Act comes into effect, the parties agreed, with regard to a judgment entered by a district court as the court of first instance, not to file an appeal while reserving the right to file a final appeal, the provisions then in force continue to govern, notwithstanding the provisions of Articles 312 and 325 of the New Act, and the provisions of Article 317, paragraph (2) and Article 318 of the New Act do not apply. machine translation, not official ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民事訴訟法 附則第二十六条第一項（最高裁判所規則への委任） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/suppl-4081-109/art-26/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/suppl-4081-109/art-26/par-1 --- ## 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 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch code-of-civil-procedure-20261017T235501-003, translated 2026-10-18 - This site's parser, version 209 — 民事訴訟法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-17