# 商法 / Commercial Code — 第五百八条 (Article 508) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-508. 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: 商法 (Commercial Code), 明治三十二年法律第四十八号 - English title "Commercial Code": 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: 第五百八条 (Article 508)（隔地者間における契約の申込み） — address `art-508` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-508 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-508 - 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. --- ### 第五百八条（隔地者間における契約の申込み） — (Offers to Contract between Merchants at a Distance) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-508 · https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-508 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-508 **第一項** 商人である隔地者の間において承諾の期間を定めないで契約の申込みを受けた者が相当の期間内に承諾の通知を発しなかったときは、その申込みは、その効力を失う。 art-508/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-508/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-508/par-1 If merchants are at a distance from each other and the party receiving an offer to contract not specifying a period for acceptance does not issue notice of its acceptance within a reasonable period of time, the offer ceases to be valid. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 民法第五百二十四条の規定は、前項の場合について準用する。 art-508/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-508/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-508/par-2 The provisions of Article 524 of the Civil Code apply mutatis mutandis to a case as referred to in the preceding paragraph. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-508/par-2: 民法第五百二十四条 → 民法 第五百二十四条 (Article 524), art-524 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-524 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-524 - art-508/par-2: 前項 → 商法 第五百八条第一項 (Article 508, paragraph (1)), art-508/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-508/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-508/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 商法 第五百八条第二項（隔地者間における契約の申込み） — https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-508/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-508/par-2 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 商法 — the text in force from 2026-06-24 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/132AC0000000048/20260624_508AC0000000046), retrieved 2026-11-05 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Commercial Code — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4293/tb), retrieved 2026-11-05 - This site's parser, version 224 — 商法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-05