# 商法 / Commercial Code — 第七百六十九条 (Article 769) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-769. 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: 第七百六十九条 (Article 769)（複合運送証券） — address `art-769` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-769 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-769 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第七百六十九条（複合運送証券） — (Multimodal Transport Bill of Lading) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-769 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-769 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-769 **第一項** 運送人又は船長は、陸上運送及び海上運送を一の契約で引き受けたときは、荷送人の請求により、運送品の船積み後遅滞なく、船積みがあった旨を記載した複合運送証券の一通又は数通を交付しなければならない。運送品の船積み前においても、その受取後は、荷送人の請求により、受取があった旨を記載した複合運送証券の一通又は数通を交付しなければならない。 art-769/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-769/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-769/par-1 If a carrier or master undertakes land transportation and marine transportation under a single contract, they must, at the request of a shipper and without delay after the loading of goods, issue one or more copies of a multimodal transport bill of lading stating that goods have been loaded. Even before the loading of goods, at the request of a shipper, the carrier or master must, after receiving the goods, issue one or more copies of a multimodal transport bill of lading stating that the goods have been received. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 第七百五十七条第二項及び第七百五十八条から前条までの規定は、複合運送証券について準用する。この場合において、第七百五十八条第一項中「除く。）」とあるのは、「除く。）並びに発送地及び到達地」と読み替えるものとする。 art-769/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-769/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-769/par-2 The provisions of Article 757, paragraph (2), and Article 758 through the preceding Article apply mutatis mutandis to a multimodal transport bill of lading. In this case, the phrase "(excluding...)" in Article 758, paragraph (1) is deemed to be replaced with "(excluding...), as well as the place of shipment and the destination". Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-769/par-2: 第七百五十七条第二項 → 商法 第七百五十七条第二項 (Article 757, paragraph (2)), art-757/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-757/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-757/par-2 - art-769/par-2: 第七百五十八条から前条まで → 商法 第七百五十八条 (Article 758), art-758 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-758 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-758 - art-769/par-2: 第七百五十八条から前条まで → 商法 第七百五十九条 (Article 759), art-759 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-759 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-759 - art-769/par-2: 第七百五十八条から前条まで → 商法 第七百六十条 (Article 760), art-760 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-760 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-760 - art-769/par-2: 第七百五十八条から前条まで → 商法 第七百六十一条 (Article 761), art-761 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-761 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-761 - art-769/par-2: 第七百五十八条から前条まで → 商法 第七百六十二条 (Article 762), art-762 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-762 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-762 - art-769/par-2: 第七百五十八条から前条まで → 商法 第七百六十三条 (Article 763), art-763 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-763 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-763 - art-769/par-2: 第七百五十八条から前条まで → 商法 第七百六十四条 (Article 764), art-764 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-764 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-764 - art-769/par-2: 第七百五十八条から前条まで → 商法 第七百六十五条 (Article 765), art-765 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-765 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-765 - art-769/par-2: 第七百五十八条から前条まで → 商法 第七百六十六条 (Article 766), art-766 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-766 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-766 - art-769/par-2: 第七百五十八条から前条まで → 商法 第七百六十七条 (Article 767), art-767 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-767 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-767 - art-769/par-2: 第七百五十八条から前条まで → 商法 第七百六十八条 (Article 768), art-768 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-768 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-768 - art-769/par-2: 第七百五十八条第一項 → 商法 第七百五十八条第一項 (Article 758, paragraph (1)), art-758/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-758/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-758/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 印紙税法 別表第一（課税物件表） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/stamp-tax-act/appdx-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342AC0000000023/appdx-1 --- ## 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