# 商法 / Commercial Code — 第七百七条 (Article 707) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-707. 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: 第七百七条 (Article 707)（運送及び船舶賃貸借に関する規定の準用） — address `art-707` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-707 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-707 - 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. --- ### 第七百七条（運送及び船舶賃貸借に関する規定の準用） — (Application Mutatis Mutandis of Provisions on Transportation and Ship Leasing) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-707 · https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-707 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-707 **第一項** 第五百七十二条、第七百三十九条第一項並びに第七百四十条第一項及び第三項の規定は定期傭船契約に係る船舶により物品を運送する場合について、第七百三条第二項の規定は定期傭船者の船舶の利用について生ずる先取特権について、それぞれ準用する。この場合において、第七百三十九条第一項中「発航の当時」とあるのは、「各航海に係る発航の当時」と読み替えるものとする。 art-707/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-707/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-707/par-1 The provisions of Article 572, Article 739, paragraph (1), and Article 740, paragraphs (1) and (3) apply mutatis mutandis when goods are transported by a ship under a time charter contract, and the provisions of Article 703, paragraph (2) apply mutatis mutandis to a statutory lien arising from the use of a ship by a time charterer. In this case, the phrase "as of the time of the ship's departure" in Article 739, paragraph (1) is deemed to be replaced with "as of the time of the ship's departure for each voyage". Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "The provisions of Article 572, Article 739, paragraph (1), and Article 740, paragraphs (1) and (3) apply mutatis mutandis when goods are transported by a ship under a time charter contract, and the provisions of Article 703, paragraph (2) apply mutatis mutandis to a statutory lien arising from the use of a ship by a time charterer. In this case, the phrase "at the time of departure of the ship" in Article 739, paragraph (1) is deemed to be replaced with "at the time of departure of the ship for each voyage"." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4293/tb --- ## Cites - art-707/par-1: 第五百七十二条 → 商法 第五百七十二条 (Article 572), art-572 — https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-572 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-572 - art-707/par-1: 第七百三十九条第一項 → 商法 第七百三十九条第一項 (Article 739, paragraph (1)), art-739/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-739/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-739/par-1 - art-707/par-1: 第七百四十条第一項 → 商法 第七百四十条第一項 (Article 740, paragraph (1)), art-740/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-740/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-740/par-1 - art-707/par-1: 第三項 → 商法 第七百四十条第三項 (Article 740, paragraph (3)), art-740/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-740/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-740/par-3 - art-707/par-1: 第七百三条第二項 → 商法 第七百三条第二項 (Article 703, paragraph (2)), art-703/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-703/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-703/par-2 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 商法 第八百二十六条第一項第四号（保険者の免責） — https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-826/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-826/par-1/item-4 - 商法 附則第十条第一項（定期傭船に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/suppl-4301-29/art-10/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/suppl-4301-29/art-10/par-1 --- ## 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 707, 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