時 written for a condition (法令用語の「とき」)

toki-as-conditionon by default (info)Japanese

時 written for a condition (受けた時は) where legal Japanese writes とき

Example

Flagged

第5条　乙は、許可の取消しを受けた時は、直ちに甲に通知しなければならない。

What chaff prints

1:18 条件を言うなら「時」は「とき」と書きます

Fixed

第5条　乙は、許可の取消しを受けたときは、直ちに甲に通知しなければならない。

What chaff prints

no finding

chaff.yaml used for this example

genre: legal/contract

How to fix

For a condition, write とき (認定を受けた時は → 認定を受けたときは). For a point in time, write 時から or 時に so that it reads as one.

Why it matters

Japanese legal drafting writes 時 for a point in time (相続開始の時から, "from the time the succession opens") and とき for a condition (認定を受けたときは, "if the approval is given"). With 認定を受けた時は the reader has to decide whether a moment or a condition is meant. Contracts and internal rules follow the statutes' usage. chaff reports 時 only after a clause that ends in a verb or an auxiliary and before は, には or も.

What it does not flag

時 for a point in time (相続開始の時から, 死亡した時に, 契約の終了の時まで), 時 after a noun or after その and ある (事故の時は, その時は), words such as 時効, 時間, 同時, 随時, 臨時, 当時, 時点 and 時期, and anything quoted in 「」 are not reported. Only the legal genres run this rule.

Turning it off or relaxing it

Silence this one spot (in the document)

Relax it for the team (the reason is kept as a comment in chaff.yaml)

npx chaffjs relax toki-as-condition --why "reason"

Turn it off for the team (chaff.yaml)

rules: toki-as-condition: off

Technical details

Layer: L3
Status: stable
Severity: info
Languages: ja
Suited to: legal, docs, academic, literature, speech
Reads from the document: pos

Levels

Set a level for this rule under rules in chaff.yaml. With nothing set, it runs at the level its genre gives it (see By genre below).

strict	warning
normal	info
relaxed	info

This rule has no limit to count to. A level sets how a finding is marked: relaxed keeps the finding and marks it a step lower.

By genre

Runs by default in: legal/contract, legal/statute, legal/judgment, legal/patent
Turned off by the genre in: docs/manual, docs/faq, docs/glossary, academic/paper, literature/fiction, literature/essay, literature/poetry, literature/play, speech/address, speech/transcript
Not suited to, and not run in: technical/spec, technical/readme, blog/tech, blog/essay, blog/owned-media, business/proposal, business/report, business/email, business/press-release, business/meeting-notes

Genres

Message

For a condition, legal Japanese writes "{matched}" as "{preferred}"

Rewrite depth (chaff fix-plan --depth): light — words and sentences; the structure and the voice stay

This page is built from the rule's definition file:packages/chaff/rules/toki-as-condition.yaml