# 商法 / Commercial Code — 第六百九十四条 (Article 694) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-694. 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: 第六百九十四条 (Article 694)（船舶共有者の持分買取請求） — address `art-694` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-694 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-694 - 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. --- ### 第六百九十四条（船舶共有者の持分買取請求） — (Requesting to Be Bought Out of One's Share as Part Owner of Ship) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-694 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-694 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-694 **第一項** 船舶共有者が次に掲げる事項を決定したときは、その決定について異議のある船舶共有者は、他の船舶共有者に対し、相当の対価で自己の持分を買い取ることを請求することができる。 art-694/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-694/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-694/par-1 When the part owners of a ship make a decision on the following matters, a part owner objecting to the decision may demand that the other part owners buy out the objecting part owner's share at a reasonable price: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 新たな航海（船舶共有者の間で予定されていなかったものに限る。）をすること。 art-694/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-694/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-694/par-1/item-1 to embark on a new voyage (limited to one that has not been planned among the part owners of the ship); or Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 船舶の大修繕をすること。 art-694/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-694/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-694/par-1/item-2 to make a major repair to the ship. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の規定による請求をしようとする者は、同項の決定の日（当該決定に加わらなかった場合にあっては、当該決定の通知を受けた日の翌日）から三日以内に、他の船舶共有者又は船舶管理人に対してその旨の通知を発しなければならない。 art-694/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-694/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-694/par-2 A part owner of a ship seeking to make a demand under the provisions of the preceding paragraph must issue notice of this to the other part owners or the ship's manager within three days from the date of the decision referred to in that paragraph (in the case of a part owner who has not participated in the decision-making process, the day after the day on which the part owner is notified of the decision). Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "A part owner of a ship seeking to make a demand under the provisions of the preceding paragraph must issue notice of this to the other part owners or the ship's husband within three days from the date of the decision referred to in that paragraph (in the case of a part owner who has not participated in the decision-making process, the day on which the part owner is notified of the decision)." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4293/tb --- ## Cites - art-694/par-2: 前項 → 商法 第六百九十四条第一項 (Article 694, paragraph (1)), art-694/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-694/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-694/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 商法 第六百九十四条第二項（船舶共有者の持分買取請求） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-694/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-694/par-2 --- ## 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 694, paragraph (2) — 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