# 商法 / Commercial Code — 第八百四十五条 (Article 845) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-845. 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: 第八百四十五条 (Article 845)（船舶先取特権と船舶の譲受人） — address `art-845` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-845 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-845 - 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. --- ### 第八百四十五条（船舶先取特権と船舶の譲受人） — (Statutory Liens on Ship and Transferee of Ship) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-845 · https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-845 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-845 **第一項** 船舶所有者がその船舶を譲渡したときは、譲受人は、その登記をした後、船舶先取特権を有する者に対し、一定の期間内にその債権の申出をすべき旨を公告しなければならない。この場合において、その期間は、一箇月を下ることができない。 art-845/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-845/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-845/par-1 If a shipowner transfers a ship, the transferee, after registering the transfer, must issue public notice to the holders of statutory liens on the ship indicating that they must file their claims within a fixed term. In such a case, the term in question may not be made shorter than one month. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 船舶先取特権を有する者が前項の期間内に同項の申出をしなかったときは、その船舶先取特権は、消滅する。 art-845/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-845/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-845/par-2 A statutory lien on a ship is extinguished if the holder does not file a claim within the term referred to in the preceding paragraph. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-845/par-2: 前項 → 商法 第八百四十五条第一項 (Article 845, paragraph (1)), art-845/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-845/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-845/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 商法 第八百四十五条第二項（船舶先取特権と船舶の譲受人） — https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-845/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-845/par-2 --- ## 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