# 商法 / Commercial Code — 第七百五十九条 (Article 759) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-759. 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: 第七百五十九条 (Article 759)（荷送人又は傭船者の通知） — address `art-759` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-759 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-759 - 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. --- ### 第七百五十九条（荷送人又は傭船者の通知） — (Notice by Shipper or Charterer) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-759 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-759 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-759 **第一項** 前条第一項第一号及び第二号に掲げる事項は、その事項につき荷送人又は傭船者の書面又は電磁的方法による通知があったときは、その通知に従って記載しなければならない。 art-759/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-759/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-759/par-1 If the shipper or charterer has notified the relevant person of the information set forth in paragraph (1), items (i) and (ii) of the preceding Article in writing or by electronic or magnetic means, that information must be entered in the bill of lading according to that notice. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の規定は、同項の通知が正確でないと信ずべき正当な理由がある場合及び当該通知が正確であることを確認する適当な方法がない場合には、適用しない。運送品の記号について、運送品又はその容器若しくは包装に航海の終了の時まで判読に堪える表示がされていない場合も、同様とする。 art-759/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-759/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-759/par-2 The provisions of the preceding paragraph do not apply if there are reasonable grounds to believe that the notice referred to in that paragraph is incorrect, or if there is no appropriate way to confirm the correctness of the notice. The same applies if the marks of the goods have not been made on the goods or their containers or packages in a way that will keep them legible up until the end of the voyage. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 荷送人又は傭船者は、運送人に対し、第一項の通知が正確でないことによって生じた損害を賠償する責任を負う。 art-759/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-759/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-759/par-3 A shipper or charterer is liable to compensate the carrier for loss or damage arising from the incorrectness of the notice referred to in paragraph (1). Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "A shipper or charterer is liable to compensate for loss or damage arising from the incorrectness of the notice referred to in paragraph (1)." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4293/tb --- ## Cites - art-759/par-1: 前条第一項第一号 → 商法 第七百五十八条第一項第一号 (Article 758, paragraph (1), item (i)), art-758/par-1/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-758/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-758/par-1/item-1 - art-759/par-1: 第二号 → 商法 第七百五十八条第一項第二号 (Article 758, paragraph (1), item (ii)), art-758/par-1/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-758/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-758/par-1/item-2 - art-759/par-2: 前項 → 商法 第七百五十九条第一項 (Article 759, paragraph (1)), art-759/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-759/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-759/par-1 - art-759/par-3: 第一項 → 商法 第七百五十九条第一項 (Article 759, paragraph (1)), art-759/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-759/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-759/par-1 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 商法 第七百五十九条第二項（荷送人又は傭船者の通知） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-759/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-759/par-2 - 商法 第七百五十九条第三項（荷送人又は傭船者の通知） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-759/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-759/par-3 - 商法 第七百六十九条第二項（複合運送証券） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-769/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-769/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 759, 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