# 商法 / Commercial Code — 第七百三十七条 (Article 737) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-737. 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: 第七百三十七条 (Article 737)（運送品の船積み等） — address `art-737` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-737 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-737 - 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. --- ### 第七百三十七条（運送品の船積み等） — (Loading of Goods) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-737 · https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-737 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-737 **第一項** 運送人は、個品運送契約（個々の運送品を目的とする運送契約をいう。以下この節において同じ。）に基づいて荷送人から運送品を受け取ったときは、その船積み及び積付けをしなければならない。 art-737/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-737/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-737/par-1 Once a carrier receives goods from a shipper based on a contract for the carriage of goods in a general ship (meaning a transportation contract intended for individual packages of goods; hereinafter the same applies in this Section), the carrier must load the goods onto the ship and stow them. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 荷送人が運送品の引渡しを怠ったときは、船長は、直ちに発航することができる。この場合において、荷送人は、運送賃の全額（運送人がその運送品に代わる他の運送品について運送賃を得た場合にあっては、当該運送賃の額を控除した額）を支払わなければならない。 art-737/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-737/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-737/par-2 If a shipper neglects to deliver goods, the master may cause the ship to depart immediately. In this case, the shipper must pay the full amount of freight charges (if a carrier receives freight charges for other goods in place of those goods, the amount of such freight charges is deducted). Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "If a shipper neglects to deliver goods, the master may cause the ship to depart immediately. In this case, the shipper must pay the full amount of freight charges (if a carrier receives freight charges for other goods, the amount of such freight charges is deducted)." — 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 737, 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 — 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