# 商法 / Commercial Code — 第七百六十五条 (Article 765) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-765. 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: 第七百六十五条 (Article 765)（数通の船荷証券を作成した場合における運送品の引渡し） — address `art-765` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-765 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-765 - 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. --- ### 第七百六十五条（数通の船荷証券を作成した場合における運送品の引渡し） — (Delivering Goods When Multiple Copies of Bill of Lading Have Been Prepared) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-765 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-765 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-765 **第一項** 陸揚港においては、運送人は、数通の船荷証券のうち一通の所持人が運送品の引渡しを請求したときであっても、その引渡しを拒むことができない。 art-765/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-765/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-765/par-1 At the port of discharge, the carrier may not refuse to deliver goods even if the holder of only one of multiple copies of the bill of lading demands delivery. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 陸揚港外においては、運送人は、船荷証券の全部の返還を受けなければ、運送品の引渡しをすることができない。 art-765/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-765/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-765/par-2 Outside the port of discharge, a carrier may not deliver goods unless all copies of the bill of lading are returned to the carrier. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 商法 第七百六十七条第一項（二人以上の船荷証券の所持人から請求を受けた場合の供託） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-767/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-767/par-1 - 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 - 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