# 民事訴訟法 / Code of Civil Procedure — 第十八条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 18) - 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: 第十八条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 18)（訴え又は控訴の取下げが口頭でされたときに関する経過措置） — address `suppl-5041-48/art-18` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/suppl-5041-48/art-18 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/suppl-5041-48/art-18 - 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. --- ### 第十八条（訴え又は控訴の取下げが口頭でされたときに関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures Concerning the Case Where the Withdrawal of an Action or of an Appeal to the Court of Second Instance Is Made Orally caption: machine translation, not official suppl-5041-48/art-18 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/suppl-5041-48/art-18 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/suppl-5041-48/art-18 **第一項** 第二条改正後民事訴訟法第二百六十一条第四項（第二条改正後民事訴訟法第二百九十二条第二項において準用する場合を含む。）及び第五項の規定は、訴えに係る事件であって施行日以後に提起されるものにおける訴えの取下げ又は控訴の取下げが口頭でされた場合における期日の電子調書の記録及びその送達について適用し、訴えに係る事件であって施行日前に提起されたものにおける訴えの取下げ又は控訴の取下げが口頭でされた場合における期日の調書の記載及びその送達については、なお従前の例による。 suppl-5041-48/art-18/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/suppl-5041-48/art-18/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/suppl-5041-48/art-18/par-1 The provisions of Article 261, paragraph (4) of the Code of Civil Procedure After the Article 2 Amendment (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 292, paragraph (2) of the Code of Civil Procedure After the Article 2 Amendment) and paragraph (5) of that Article apply to the recording in the electronic record for the court date, and the service of that record, in the case where the withdrawal of an action or of an appeal to the court of second instance is made orally in cases pertaining to an action that are filed on or after the Effective Date, and the provisions then in force continue to govern the entry in the record for the court date, and the service of that record, in the case where the withdrawal of an action or of an appeal to the court of second instance is made orally in cases pertaining to an action that were filed before the Effective Date. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-5041-48/art-18/par-1: 第二条改正後民事訴訟法第二百六十一条第四項 → 民事訴訟法 第二百六十一条第四項 (Article 261, paragraph (4)), art-261/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-261/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-261/par-4 - suppl-5041-48/art-18/par-1: 第二条改正後民事訴訟法第二百九十二条第二項 → 民事訴訟法 第二百九十二条第二項 (Article 292, paragraph (2)), art-292/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-292/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-292/par-2 - suppl-5041-48/art-18/par-1: 第五項 → 民事訴訟法 第二百六十一条第五項 (Article 261, paragraph (5)), art-261/par-5 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-261/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-261/par-5 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民事訴訟法 附則第二条第一項（訴訟費用額の確定手続に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/suppl-5041-48/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/suppl-5041-48/art-2/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-20261017T235501-009, 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