Article 598Extinctive Prescription of Claims Involving Liability of Establishment's Proprietor
第五百九十八条（場屋営業者の責任に係る債権の消滅時効）
A claim involving the liability of an establishment's proprietor as referred to in the preceding two Articles is extinguished by prescription if the customer does not exercise it during the one-year period after the establishment's proprietor returns the bailed goods or the customer leaves with the goods that they carried into the establishment (or, in the event of a total loss of goods, after the customer leaves the establishment).
The provisions of the preceding paragraph do not apply if an establishment's proprietor has knowledge of the loss or damage to the goods prescribed in that paragraph.
establishment's proprietor
「場屋営業者」
A person whose business is dealing with customers at premises where customers gather, such as an inn, restaurant or bathhouse, and who is liable for loss of or damage to goods customers leave in their care unless they prove it was caused by force majeure.
Short name set inArticle 596, paragraph (1)· applies only in this section