# 商法 / Commercial Code — 第五百九十八条 (Article 598) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-598. 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: 第五百九十八条 (Article 598)（場屋営業者の責任に係る債権の消滅時効） — address `art-598` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-598 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-598 - 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. --- ### 第五百九十八条（場屋営業者の責任に係る債権の消滅時効） — (Extinctive Prescription of Claims Involving Liability of Establishment's Proprietor) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-598 · https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-598 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-598 **第一項** 前二条の場屋営業者の責任に係る債権は、場屋営業者が寄託を受けた物品を返還し、又は客が場屋の中に携帯した物品を持ち去った時（物品の全部滅失の場合にあっては、客が場屋を去った時）から一年間行使しないときは、時効によって消滅する。 art-598/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-598/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-598/par-1 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). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の規定は、場屋営業者が同項に規定する物品の滅失又は損傷につき悪意であった場合には、適用しない。 art-598/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-598/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-598/par-2 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. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-598/par-1: 前二条 → 商法 第五百九十六条 (Article 596), art-596 — https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-596 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-596 - art-598/par-1: 前二条 → 商法 第五百九十七条 (Article 597), art-597 — https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-597 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-597 - art-598/par-2: 前項 → 商法 第五百九十八条第一項 (Article 598, paragraph (1)), art-598/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-598/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-598/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 商法 第五百九十八条第二項（場屋営業者の責任に係る債権の消滅時効） — https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-598/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-598/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