# 人事訴訟法 / Personal Status Litigation Act — 第二十七条 (Article 27) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-status-litigation-act/art-27. Every law, and how to address a provision: https://japanlaw.org/llms.txt. The same laws as MCP tools (no sign-in): https://japanlaw.org/mcp. - Law: 人事訴訟法 (Personal Status Litigation Act), 平成十五年法律第百九号 - English title "Personal Status Litigation Act": 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: 第二十七条 (Article 27)（当事者の死亡による人事訴訟の終了） — address `art-27` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-status-litigation-act/art-27 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-27 - 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. --- ### 第二十七条（当事者の死亡による人事訴訟の終了） — (Termination of Personal Status Litigation Due to the Death of the Parties) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-27 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-status-litigation-act/art-27 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-27 **第一項** 人事訴訟の係属中に原告が死亡した場合には、特別の定めがある場合を除き、当該人事訴訟は、当然に終了する。 art-27/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-status-litigation-act/art-27/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-27/par-1 Except as otherwise provided, personal status litigation is terminated automatically if the plaintiff dies while it is pending. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 離婚、嫡出否認（父を被告とする場合を除く。）又は離縁を目的とする人事訴訟の係属中に被告が死亡した場合には、当該人事訴訟は、前条第二項の規定にかかわらず、当然に終了する。 art-27/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-status-litigation-act/art-27/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-27/par-2 Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (2) of the preceding Article, personal status litigation in which the subject matter is a divorce, rebuttal of the presumption of legitimacy (excluding cases where the father is the defendant), or the dissolution of an adoptive relationship is terminated by operation of law if the defendant dies while it is pending. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-27/par-2: 前条第二項 → 人事訴訟法 第二十六条第二項 (Article 26, paragraph (2)), art-26/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-status-litigation-act/art-26/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-26/par-2 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 附則第四条第二項（嫡出の否認及び嫡出の承認に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/suppl-5041-102/art-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-5041-102/art-4/par-2 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 人事訴訟法 — the text in force from 2026-06-24 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/415AC0000000109/20260624_508AC0000000046), retrieved 2026-11-02 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Personal Status Litigation Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/5166/tb), retrieved 2026-11-02 - This site's parser, version 220 — 人事訴訟法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-02