# 商法 / Commercial Code — 第七百四十七条 (Article 747) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-747. 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: 第七百四十七条 (Article 747)（非航海船による物品運送への準用） — address `art-747` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-747 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-747 - 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. --- ### 第七百四十七条（非航海船による物品運送への準用） — (Application Mutatis Mutandis to Freight Transportation by Non-Seagoing Vessels) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-747 · https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-747 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-747 **第一項** この節の規定は、商行為をする目的で専ら湖川、港湾その他の海以外の水域において航行の用に供する船舶（端舟その他ろかいのみをもって運転し、又は主としてろかいをもって運転する舟を除く。以下この編において「非航海船」という。）によって物品を運送する場合について準用する。 art-747/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-747/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-747/par-1 The provisions of this Section apply mutatis mutandis to transportation of goods by ships used exclusively for navigation in water areas other than seas, such as lakes, rivers, ports, and harbors, for the purpose of conducting commercial transactions (excluding a ship's tender or a boat steered solely or mainly using oars or paddles; hereinafter referred to as "non-seagoing vessels" in this Part). Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "The provisions of this Section apply to transportation of goods by ships used exclusively for navigation in water areas other than seas, such as lakes, rivers, ports, and harbors, for the purpose of conducting commercial acts (excluding a ship's tender or a boat steered solely or mainly using oars or paddles; hereinafter referred to as "non-seagoing vessels" in this Part)." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4293/tb ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 商法 第五百六十九条第一項第三号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-569/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-569/par-1/item-3 - 商法 第六百八十四条第一項（定義） — https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-684/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-684/par-1 - 商法 第七百五十六条第一項（個品運送契約に関する規定の準用等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-756/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-756/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 747, 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