# 商法 / Commercial Code — 第七百九十八条 (Article 798) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-798. 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: 第七百九十八条 (Article 798)（救助料の割合の案） — address `art-798` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-798 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-798 - 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. --- ### 第七百九十八条（救助料の割合の案） — (Proposing Proportions of Salvage Charges) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-798 · https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-798 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-798 **第一項** 船舶所有者が前条第四項の規定により救助料の割合を決定するには、航海を終了するまでにその案を作成し、これを船員に示さなければならない。 art-798/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-798/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-798/par-1 To determine the proportions of salvage charges pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (4) of the preceding Article, the shipowner must prepare a proposal of the proportions and present it to the mariners by the end of the voyage. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-798/par-1: 前条第四項 → 商法 第七百九十七条第四項 (Article 797, paragraph (4)), art-797/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-797/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-797/par-4 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 商法 第七百九十九条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-799/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-799/par-1 - 商法 第七百九十九条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-799/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-799/par-2 - 商法 第八百条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-800/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-800/par-1 --- ## 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