# 商法 / Commercial Code — 第七百九十二条 (Article 792) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-792. 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: 第七百九十二条 (Article 792)（救助料の支払の請求等） — address `art-792` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-792 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-792 - 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. --- ### 第七百九十二条（救助料の支払の請求等） — (Demand for Payment of Salvage Charges) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-792 · https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-792 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-792 **第一項** 船舶又は積荷その他の船舶内にある物（以下この編において「積荷等」という。）の全部又は一部が海難に遭遇した場合において、これを救助した者があるときは、その者（以下この章において「救助者」という。）は、契約に基づかないで救助したときであっても、その結果に対して救助料の支払を請求することができる。 art-792/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-792/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-792/par-1 If all or part of a ship or the cargo and other such objects on a ship (hereinafter referred to as "cargo and other such objects" in this Part) are involved in a marine accident, a person that salvages these (hereinafter referred to as a "salvor" in this Chapter) may claim salvage charges commensurate with the results of the salvage even if there is no contractual basis for the salvor to salvage them. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "If all or part of a ship or the cargo and other such objects on a ship (hereinafter referred to as "cargo and other such objects" in this Part) are involved in a marine accident, a person that salvages these (hereinafter referred to as a "salvor" in this Chapter) may claim reasonable salvage charges commensurate with the results of the salvage even if there is no contractual basis for the salvor to salvage them." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4293/tb **第二項** 船舶所有者及び船長は、積荷等の所有者に代わってその救助に係る契約を締結する権限を有する。 art-792/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-792/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-792/par-2 A shipowner and master have the authority to conclude a salvage contract on behalf of the owners of cargo and other such objects. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 商法 第七百九十六条第二項（救助料の割合等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-796/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-796/par-2 --- ## 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 792, 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