# 商法 / Commercial Code — 第七百三条 (Article 703) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-703. 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: 第七百三条 (Article 703)（船舶の賃借人の権利義務等） — address `art-703` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-703 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-703 - 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. --- ### 第七百三条（船舶の賃借人の権利義務等） — (Rights and Obligations of Ship's Lessee) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-703 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-703 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-703 **第一項** 前条に規定する船舶の賃借人は、その船舶の利用に関する事項については、第三者に対して、船舶所有者と同一の権利義務を有する。 art-703/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-703/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-703/par-1 A lessee of a ship prescribed in the preceding Article has the same rights and obligations as the shipowner toward third parties as it concerns particulars related to the use of the ship. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "A lessee of a ship has the same rights and obligations as the shipowner toward third parties as it concerns particulars related to the use of the ship." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4293/tb **第二項** 前項の場合において、その船舶の利用について生じた先取特権は、船舶所有者に対しても、その効力を生ずる。ただし、船舶の賃借人によるその利用の態様が船舶所有者との契約に反することを先取特権者が知っていたときは、この限りでない。 art-703/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-703/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-703/par-2 In the case referred to in the preceding paragraph, any statutory lien arising from the use of the ship is also valid against the shipowner; provided, however, that this does not apply if the holder of the statutory lien knows that the manner in which the ship is used by the ship's lessee is in violation of the contract with the shipowner. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-703/par-1: 前条 → 商法 第七百二条 (Article 702), art-702 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-702 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-702 - art-703/par-2: 前項 → 商法 第七百三条第一項 (Article 703, paragraph (1)), art-703/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-703/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-703/par-1 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 商法 第七百三条第二項（船舶の賃借人の権利義務等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-703/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-703/par-2 - 商法 第七百七条第一項（運送及び船舶賃貸借に関する規定の準用） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-707/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-707/par-1 --- ## 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 703, paragraph (1) — 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