# 商法 / Commercial Code — 第八百二条 (Article 802) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-802. 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: 第八百二条 (Article 802)（積荷等についての先取特権） — address `art-802` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-802 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-802 - 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. --- ### 第八百二条（積荷等についての先取特権） — (Statutory Lien on Cargo and Other Such Objects) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-802 · https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-802 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-802 **第一項** 救助料に係る債権を有する者は、救助された積荷等について先取特権を有する。 art-802/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-802/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-802/par-1 A person that holds a claim for salvage charges holds a statutory lien on cargo and other such objects that have been salvaged. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の先取特権については、第八百四十三条第二項、第八百四十四条及び第八百四十六条の規定を準用する。 art-802/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-802/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-802/par-2 The provisions of Article 843, paragraph (2), Article 844, and Article 846 apply mutatis mutandis to a statutory lien referred to in the preceding paragraph. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-802/par-2: 前項 → 商法 第八百二条第一項 (Article 802, paragraph (1)), art-802/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-802/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-802/par-1 - art-802/par-2: 第八百四十三条第二項 → 商法 第八百四十三条第二項 (Article 843, paragraph (2)), art-843/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-843/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-843/par-2 - art-802/par-2: 第八百四十四条 → 商法 第八百四十四条 (Article 844), art-844 — https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-844 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-844 - art-802/par-2: 第八百四十六条 → 商法 第八百四十六条 (Article 846), art-846 — https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-846 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-846 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 商法 第八百二条第二項（積荷等についての先取特権） — https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-802/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-802/par-2 - 国税徴収法 第十九条第一項第四号（不動産保存の先取特権等の優先） — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-tax-collection-act/art-19/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000147/art-19/par-1/item-4 - 地方税法 第十四条の十三第一項第四号（不動産保存の先取特権等の優先） — https://japanlaw.org/en/local-tax-act/art-14-13/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000226/art-14-13/par-1/item-4 --- ## 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