# 商法 / Commercial Code — 第七百八十八条 (Article 788) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-788. 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: 第七百八十八条 (Article 788)（船舶所有者間の責任の分担） — address `art-788` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-788 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-788 - 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. --- ### 第七百八十八条（船舶所有者間の責任の分担） — (Sharing of Liability among Shipowners) caption: Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "(Sharing of Liability among Part Owners of Ship)" — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4293/tb art-788 · https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-788 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-788 **第一項** 船舶と他の船舶との衝突（次条において「船舶の衝突」という。）に係る事故が生じた場合において、衝突したいずれの船舶についてもその船舶所有者又は船員に過失があったときは、裁判所は、これらの過失の軽重を考慮して、各船舶所有者について、その衝突による損害賠償の責任及びその額を定める。この場合において、過失の軽重を定めることができないときは、損害賠償の責任及びその額は、各船舶所有者が等しい割合で負担する。 art-788/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-788/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-788/par-1 In the event of an accident caused by a collision of two ships (referred to as a "collision of ships" in the following Article), if there is negligence on the part of the shipowners or mariners of both ships, the court determines the liability of each shipowner to compensate for loss or damage arising from the collision and the amount of compensation in consideration of which ship was more seriously negligent. In such a case, if it is impossible to determine which ship was more seriously negligent, both shipowners are equally liable to compensate for loss or damage and bear the amount of compensation equally. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-788/par-1: 次条 → 商法 第七百八十九条 (Article 789), art-789 — https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-789 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-789 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 商法 第七百九十条第一項（準衝突） — https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-790/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-790/par-1 - 商法 第七百九十一条第一項（非航海船との衝突等への準用） — https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-791/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-791/par-1 - 商法 附則第十二条第一項（船舶の衝突に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/suppl-4301-29/art-12/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/suppl-4301-29/art-12/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 788 — 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