# 商法 / Commercial Code — 第八百四十六条 (Article 846) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-846. 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: 第八百四十六条 (Article 846)（船舶先取特権の消滅） — address `art-846` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-846 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-846 - 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. --- ### 第八百四十六条（船舶先取特権の消滅） — (Extinguishment of Statutory Liens on Ships) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-846 · https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-846 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-846 **第一項** 船舶先取特権は、その発生後一年を経過したときは、消滅する。 art-846/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-846/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-846/par-1 A statutory lien on a ship is extinguished one year's time after it arises. 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 --- ## 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