# 商法 / Commercial Code — 第八百四十二条 (Article 842) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-842. 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: 第八百四十二条 (Article 842)（船舶先取特権） — address `art-842` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-842 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-842 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第八百四十二条（船舶先取特権） — (Statutory Liens on Ships) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-842 · https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-842 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-842 **第一項** 次に掲げる債権を有する者は、船舶及びその属具について先取特権を有する。 art-842/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-842/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-842/par-1 A person holding a claim as set forth in one of the following has a statutory lien on the ship and its equipment: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 船舶の運航に直接関連して生じた人の生命又は身体の侵害による損害賠償請求権 art-842/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-842/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-842/par-1/item-1 a claim to compensation for loss or damage due to harm to an individual's life or person that has arisen in direct connection with the operation of the ship; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 救助料に係る債権又は船舶の負担に属する共同海損の分担に基づく債権 art-842/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-842/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-842/par-1/item-2 a claim for the salvage charges or a claim based on the sharing of a general average to be borne by the ship; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **三** 国税徴収法（昭和三十四年法律第百四十七号）若しくは国税徴収の例によって徴収することのできる請求権であって船舶の入港、港湾の利用その他船舶の航海に関して生じたもの又は水先料若しくは引き船料に係る債権 art-842/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-842/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-842/par-1/item-3 a claim that can be collected pursuant to the National Tax Collection Act (Act No. 147 of 1959) or using procedures for collecting national taxes and that arises in connection with the ship's entry into a port or use of a port or in connection with other operation of the ship; or a claim for pilotage charges or towage charges; Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "a claim that can be collected pursuant to the National Tax Collection Act (Act No. 47 of 1959) or using procedures for collecting national taxes and that arises in connection with the ship's entry into a port or use of a port or in connection with other operation of the ship; or a claim for pilotage charges or towage charges;" — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4293/tb **四** 航海を継続するために必要な費用に係る債権 art-842/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-842/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-842/par-1/item-4 a claim for costs necessary for continuing a voyage; and Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **五** 雇用契約によって生じた船長その他の船員の債権 art-842/par-1/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-842/par-1/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-842/par-1/item-5 a claim held by the master or a mariner arising from an employment contract. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 商法 第八百四十三条第一項（船舶先取特権の順位） — https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-843/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-843/par-1 - 商法 第八百四十三条第二項（船舶先取特権の順位） — https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-843/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-843/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 - 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 842, paragraph (1), item (iii) — 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