# 商法 / Commercial Code — 第七百五十二条 (Article 752) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-752. 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: 第七百五十二条 (Article 752)（運送品の陸揚げ） — address `art-752` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-752 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-752 - 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. --- ### 第七百五十二条（運送品の陸揚げ） — (Discharge of Goods) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-752 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-752 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-752 **第一項** 運送品の陸揚げのために必要な準備を完了したときは、船長は、遅滞なく、荷受人に対してその旨の通知を発しなければならない。 art-752/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-752/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-752/par-1 Once the preparations necessary for discharging goods from a ship have been completed, the master must notify the consignee of this without delay. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 陸揚期間の定めがある航海傭船契約において始期を定めなかったときは、その期間は、前項の通知があった時から起算する。この場合において、不可抗力によって陸揚げをすることができない期間は、陸揚期間に算入しない。 art-752/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-752/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-752/par-2 If a voyage charter contract prescribes a discharge period but does not prescribe the time of its commencement, the discharge period is counted from the time at which the consignee is notified as referred to in the preceding paragraph. In this case, the discharge period does not include any period during which the discharge of goods is impeded due to force majeure. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 荷受人が陸揚期間の経過後に運送品の陸揚げをした場合には、運送人は、特約がないときであっても、相当な滞船料を請求することができる。 art-752/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-752/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-752/par-3 If the consignee discharges goods after the discharge period has passed, the carrier may claim reasonable demurrage even if there is no special agreement to that effect. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "If the consignee discharges goods after the discharge period has passed, the carrier may claim reasonable charterage even if there is no special agreement to that effect." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4293/tb --- ## Cites - art-752/par-2: 前項 → 商法 第七百五十二条第一項 (Article 752, paragraph (1)), art-752/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-752/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-752/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 商法 第七百五十二条第二項（運送品の陸揚げ） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-752/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-752/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 752, paragraph (3) — 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