However, the legal language was described in literal style Japanese under the system of the Great Imperial Japan Constitution, so that it was not until the post-war period under the system of the Constitution of Japan that it came to be written in a colloquial style.
しかし、法律の言語は大日本帝国憲法体制のもとでは文語文を用いて記述されていたので、それが口語体となるのは、日本国憲法体制の戦後期を待たなければならなかった。