# 商法 / Commercial Code — 第七百六十八条 (Article 768) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-768. 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: 第七百六十八条 (Article 768)（船荷証券が作成された場合の特則） — address `art-768` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-768 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-768 - 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. --- ### 第七百六十八条（船荷証券が作成された場合の特則） — (Special Provisions for Cases In Which Bills of Lading Have Been Prepared) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-768 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-768 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-768 **第一項** 船荷証券が作成された場合における前編第八章第二節の規定の適用については、第五百八十条中「荷送人」とあるのは、「船荷証券の所持人」とし、第五百八十一条、第五百八十二条第二項及び第五百八十七条ただし書の規定は、適用しない。 art-768/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-768/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-768/par-1 To apply the provisions of Chapter VIII, Section 2 of the preceding Part to a case in which a bill of lading has been prepared, the term "shipper" in Article 580 is deemed to be replaced with "holder of a bill of lading" and the provisions of Article 581, Article 582, paragraph (2), and the proviso to Article 587 do not apply. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-768/par-1: 第五百八十条 → 商法 第五百八十条 (Article 580), art-580 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-580 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-580 - art-768/par-1: 第五百八十一条 → 商法 第五百八十一条 (Article 581), art-581 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-581 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-581 - art-768/par-1: 第五百八十二条第二項 → 商法 第五百八十二条第二項 (Article 582, paragraph (2)), art-582/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-582/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-582/par-2 - art-768/par-1: 第五百八十七条 → 商法 第五百八十七条 (Article 587), art-587 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-587 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-587 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 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