# 商法 / Commercial Code — 第六百十四条 (Article 614) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-614. 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: 第六百十四条 (Article 614)（倉荷証券を質入れした場合における寄託物の一部の返還請求） — address `art-614` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-614 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-614 - 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. --- ### 第六百十四条（倉荷証券を質入れした場合における寄託物の一部の返還請求） — (Demanding Partial Return of Bailed Goods If Warehouse Receipt Has Been Pledged) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-614 · https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-614 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-614 **第一項** 倉荷証券を質権の目的とした場合において、質権者の承諾があるときは、寄託者は、当該質権の被担保債権の弁済期前であっても、寄託物の一部の返還を請求することができる。この場合において、倉庫営業者は、返還した寄託物の種類、品質及び数量を倉荷証券に記載し、かつ、その旨を帳簿に記載しなければならない。 art-614/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-614/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-614/par-1 If a warehouse receipt is pledged, the bailor, with the pledgee's consent, may demand the return of part of the bailed goods even before the claim secured by the pledge becomes due. In this case, the warehouse operator must enter the type, quality, and quantity of the returned part of the bailed goods on the warehouse receipt, and make an entry of this in its books. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "If a warehouse receipt is pledged, the bailor, with the pledgee's consent, may demand the return of part of the bailed goods even before the claim secured by the pledge becomes due. In this case, the warehouse must enter the type, quality, and quantity of the returned part of the bailed goods on the warehouse receipt, and make an entry of this in its books." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4293/tb --- ## 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 614, 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