# 商法 / Commercial Code — 第六百十七条 (Article 617) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-617. 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: 第六百十七条 (Article 617)（倉庫営業者の責任に係る債権の消滅時効） — address `art-617` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-617 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-617 - 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. --- ### 第六百十七条（倉庫営業者の責任に係る債権の消滅時効） — (Extinctive Prescription of Claims Involving Warehouse Operator's Liability) caption: Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "(Extinctive Prescription of Claims Involving Warehouse's Liability)" — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4293/tb art-617 · https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-617 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-617 **第一項** 寄託物の滅失又は損傷についての倉庫営業者の責任に係る債権は、寄託物の出庫の日から一年間行使しないときは、時効によって消滅する。 art-617/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-617/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-617/par-1 A claim involving the liability of a warehouse operator arising from loss or damage to bailed goods is extinguished by prescription if it is not exercised within one year after the date of the removal of the bailed goods from the warehouse facility. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "A claim involving the liability of a warehouse arising from loss or damage to bailed goods is extinguished by prescription if it is not exercised within one year after the date of the removal of the bailed goods from the warehouse facility." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4293/tb **第二項** 前項の期間は、寄託物の全部滅失の場合においては、倉庫営業者が倉荷証券の所持人（倉荷証券を作成していないとき又は倉荷証券の所持人が知れないときは、寄託者）に対してその旨の通知を発した日から起算する。 art-617/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-617/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-617/par-2 In the event of a total loss of bailed goods, the period referred to in the preceding paragraph is counted from the day on which the warehouse operator issued notice of the loss to the holder of the warehouse receipt (or to the bailor if no warehouse receipt is prepared or the holder of the warehouse receipt is unknown). Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "In the event of a total loss of bailed goods, the period referred to in the preceding paragraph is counted from the day on which the warehouse issued notice of the loss to the holder of the warehouse receipt (or to the bailor if no warehouse receipt is prepared or the holder of the warehouse receipt is unknown)." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4293/tb **第三項** 前二項の規定は、倉庫営業者が寄託物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-617/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-617/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-617/par-3 The provisions of the preceding two paragraphs do not apply if the warehouse operator has knowledge of the loss or damage to the bailed goods. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "The provisions of the preceding two paragraphs do not apply if the warehouse has knowledge of the loss or damage to the bailed goods." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4293/tb --- ## Cites - art-617/par-2: 前項 → 商法 第六百十七条第一項 (Article 617, paragraph (1)), art-617/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-617/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-617/par-1 - art-617/par-3: 前二項 → 商法 第六百十七条第一項 (Article 617, paragraph (1)), art-617/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-617/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-617/par-1 - art-617/par-3: 前二項 → 商法 第六百十七条第二項 (Article 617, paragraph (2)), art-617/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-617/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-617/par-2 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 商法 第六百十七条第二項（倉庫営業者の責任に係る債権の消滅時効） — https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-617/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-617/par-2 - 商法 第六百十七条第三項（倉庫営業者の責任に係る債権の消滅時効） — https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-617/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-617/par-3 --- ## 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 617 — 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 (商法), Article 617, 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 (商法), Article 617, paragraph (2) — 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 (商法), Article 617, paragraph (3) — 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