# 商法 / Commercial Code — 第七百六十六条 (Article 766) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-766. 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: 第七百六十六条 (Article 766) — address `art-766` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-766 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-766 - 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. --- ### 第七百六十六条 art-766 · https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-766 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-766 **第一項** 二人以上の船荷証券の所持人がある場合において、その一人が他の所持人より先に運送人から運送品の引渡しを受けたときは、当該他の所持人の船荷証券は、その効力を失う。 art-766/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-766/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-766/par-1 If two or more persons hold copies of a bill of lading and one of the holders is delivered the goods by the carrier before any other holder, the other holders' copies of the bill of lading cease to be valid. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 商法 第七百六十九条第二項（複合運送証券） — https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-769/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-769/par-2 --- ## Sources - 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 — 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