# 商法 / Commercial Code — 第七百十二条 (Article 712) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-712. 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: 第七百十二条 (Article 712)（航海継続のための積荷の使用） — address `art-712` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-712 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-712 - 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. --- ### 第七百十二条（航海継続のための積荷の使用） — (Using Cargo to Continue Voyage) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-712 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-712 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-712 **第一項** 船長は、航海を継続するため必要があるときは、積荷を航海の用に供することができる。 art-712/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-712/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-712/par-1 The master may use the cargo for a voyage if this is necessary in order to continue the voyage. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 第五百七十六条第一項及び第二項の規定は、前項の場合において船舶所有者が支払うべき償金の額について準用する。この場合において、同条第一項中「引渡し」とあるのは、「陸揚げ」と読み替えるものとする。 art-712/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-712/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-712/par-2 The provisions of Article 576, paragraphs (1) and (2) apply mutatis mutandis to the amount of compensation payable by the shipowner in the case referred to in the preceding paragraph. In this case, the term "delivered" in paragraph (1) of that Article is deemed to be replaced with "discharged". Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "The provisions of Article 576, paragraphs (1) and (2) apply mutatis mutandis to the amount of compensation payable by the shipowner in the case referred to in the preceding paragraph. In this case, the term "delivery" in paragraph (1) of that Article is deemed to be replaced with "discharge"." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4293/tb --- ## Cites - art-712/par-2: 第五百七十六条第一項 → 商法 第五百七十六条第一項 (Article 576, paragraph (1)), art-576/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-576/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-576/par-1 - art-712/par-2: 第二項 → 商法 第五百七十六条第二項 (Article 576, paragraph (2)), art-576/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-576/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-576/par-2 - art-712/par-2: 前項 → 商法 第七百十二条第一項 (Article 712, paragraph (1)), art-712/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-712/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-712/par-1 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 商法 第七百十二条第二項（航海継続のための積荷の使用） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-712/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-712/par-2 - 商法 第七百四十六条第一項（積荷を航海の用に供した場合の運送賃） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-746/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-746/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 712, 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