# 商法 / Commercial Code — 第六百三条 (Article 603) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-603. 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: 第六百三条 (Article 603)（寄託物の分割請求） — address `art-603` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-603 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-603 - 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. --- ### 第六百三条（寄託物の分割請求） — (Request to Divide Bailed Goods) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-603 · https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-603 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-603 **第一項** 倉荷証券の所持人は、倉庫営業者に対し、寄託物の分割及びその各部分に対する倉荷証券の交付を請求することができる。この場合において、所持人は、その所持する倉荷証券を倉庫営業者に返還しなければならない。 art-603/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-603/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-603/par-1 The holder of a warehouse receipt may request a warehouse operator to divide the bailed goods and issue new warehouse receipts for each of the portions of the goods. In this case, the holder must return the initial warehouse receipt to the warehouse operator. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "The holder of a warehouse receipt may request a warehouse to divide the bailed goods and issue new warehouse receipts for each of the portions of the goods. In this case, the holder must return the initial warehouse receipt to the warehouse." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4293/tb **第二項** 前項の規定による寄託物の分割及び倉荷証券の交付に関する費用は、所持人が負担する。 art-603/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-603/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-603/par-2 The costs for dividing bailed goods and issuing warehouse receipts under the provisions of the preceding paragraph are borne by the holder of the warehouse receipt. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-603/par-2: 前項 → 商法 第六百三条第一項 (Article 603, paragraph (1)), art-603/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-603/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-603/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 商法 第六百三条第二項（寄託物の分割請求） — https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-603/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-603/par-2 --- ## Sources - claude-opus-5-5 — Corrections to the Ministry of Justice's English of paragraphs, written 2026-11-05 - 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 (商法), Article 603, paragraph (1) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4293/tb), 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