# 商法 / Commercial Code — 第七百十一条 (Article 711) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-711. 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: 第七百十一条 (Article 711)（船長による積荷の処分） — address `art-711` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-711 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-711 - 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. --- ### 第七百十一条（船長による積荷の処分） — (Handling of Cargo by Master) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-711 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-711 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-711 **第一項** 船長は、航海中に積荷の利害関係人の利益のため必要があるときは、利害関係人に代わり、最もその利益に適合する方法によって、その積荷の処分をしなければならない。 art-711/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-711/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-711/par-1 While a ship is at sea, the master must handle cargo on behalf of persons with an interest in the cargo in a way that is in their best interests, when it is necessary to do so in order to benefit their interests. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 積荷の利害関係人は、前項の処分によりその積荷について債務を負担したときは、当該債務に係る債権者にその積荷について有する権利を移転して、その責任を免れることができる。ただし、利害関係人に過失があったときは、この限りでない。 art-711/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-711/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-711/par-2 If a person with an interest in cargo incurs an obligation in connection with that cargo due to the handling referred to in the preceding paragraph, the interested person may be released from the liability for that obligation by transferring its rights in the cargo to the obligee; provided, however, that this does not apply if there is negligence on the part of the interested person. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-711/par-2: 前項 → 商法 第七百十一条第一項 (Article 711, paragraph (1)), art-711/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-711/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-711/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 商法 第七百十一条第二項（船長による積荷の処分） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-711/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-711/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