# 商法 / Commercial Code — 第七百八十九条 (Article 789) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-789. 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: 第七百八十九条 (Article 789)（船舶の衝突による損害賠償請求権の消滅時効） — address `art-789` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-789 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-789 - 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. --- ### 第七百八十九条（船舶の衝突による損害賠償請求権の消滅時効） — (Extinctive Prescription of Claims to Compensation for Loss or Damage Arising from Collision of Ships) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-789 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-789 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-789 **第一項** 船舶の衝突を原因とする不法行為による損害賠償請求権（財産権が侵害されたことによるものに限る。）は、不法行為の時から二年間行使しないときは、時効によって消滅する。 art-789/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-789/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-789/par-1 A claim for compensation for loss or damage arising from a tortious act occasioned by a collision of ships (limited to one arising from violation of property rights) is extinguished by prescription if it is not exercised within two years from the time of the tortious act. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 商法 第七百八十八条第一項（船舶所有者間の責任の分担） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-788/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-788/par-1 - 商法 第七百九十条第一項（準衝突） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-790/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-790/par-1 - 商法 第七百九十一条第一項（非航海船との衝突等への準用） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-791/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-791/par-1 - 商法 附則第十二条第一項（船舶の衝突に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/suppl-4301-29/art-12/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/suppl-4301-29/art-12/par-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