# 商法 / Commercial Code — 第五百二十七条 (Article 527) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-527. 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: 第五百二十七条 (Article 527)（買主による目的物の保管及び供託） — address `art-527` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-527 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-527 - 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). 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第五百二十七条（買主による目的物の保管及び供託） — (Storage and Depositing of Object of Sale by Buyer) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-527 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-527 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-527 **第一項** 前条第一項に規定する場合においては、買主は、契約の解除をしたときであっても、売主の費用をもって売買の目的物を保管し、又は供託しなければならない。ただし、その物について滅失又は損傷のおそれがあるときは、裁判所の許可を得てその物を競売に付し、かつ、その代価を保管し、又は供託しなければならない。 art-527/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-527/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-527/par-1 In a case prescribed in paragraph (1) of the preceding Article, the buyer must store or deposit the object of the sales transaction at the expense of the seller, even if the buyer cancels the contract; provided, however, that if the object is likely to be lost or damaged, the buyer must put it up for auction with the permission of the court and store or deposit the proceeds from the auction. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項ただし書の許可に係る事件は、同項の売買の目的物の所在地を管轄する地方裁判所が管轄する。 art-527/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-527/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-527/par-2 A case in which a person seeks the permission referred to in the proviso to the preceding paragraph is subject to the jurisdiction of the district court having jurisdiction over the locality of the object of the sales transaction referred to in that paragraph. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 第一項の規定により買主が売買の目的物を競売に付したときは、遅滞なく、売主に対してその旨の通知を発しなければならない。 art-527/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-527/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-527/par-3 Once the buyer puts the object of a sales transaction up for auction pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1), it must issue notice of this to the seller without delay. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第四項** 前三項の規定は、売主及び買主の営業所（営業所がない場合にあっては、その住所）が同一の市町村の区域内にある場合には、適用しない。 art-527/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-527/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-527/par-4 The provisions of the preceding three paragraphs do not apply if the seller's and buyer's places of business (or their domiciles, if they do not have places of business) are located within the limits of the same municipality. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-527/par-1: 前条第一項 → 商法 第五百二十六条第一項 (Article 526, paragraph (1)), art-526/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-526/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-526/par-1 - art-527/par-2: 前項 → 商法 第五百二十七条第一項 (Article 527, paragraph (1)), art-527/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-527/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-527/par-1 - art-527/par-3: 第一項 → 商法 第五百二十七条第一項 (Article 527, paragraph (1)), art-527/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-527/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-527/par-1 - art-527/par-4: 前三項 → 商法 第五百二十七条第一項 (Article 527, paragraph (1)), art-527/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-527/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-527/par-1 - art-527/par-4: 前三項 → 商法 第五百二十七条第二項 (Article 527, paragraph (2)), art-527/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-527/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-527/par-2 - art-527/par-4: 前三項 → 商法 第五百二十七条第三項 (Article 527, paragraph (3)), art-527/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-527/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-527/par-3 ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 商法 第五百二十七条第二項（買主による目的物の保管及び供託） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-527/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-527/par-2 - 商法 第五百二十七条第三項（買主による目的物の保管及び供託） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-527/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-527/par-3 - 商法 第五百二十七条第四項（買主による目的物の保管及び供託） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-527/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-527/par-4 - 商法 第五百二十八条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-528/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-528/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