# 商法 / Commercial Code — 第八百十七条 (Article 817) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-817. 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: 第八百十七条 (Article 817) — address `art-817` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-817 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-817 - 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. --- ### 第八百十七条 art-817 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-817 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-817 **第一項** 保険者は、海難の救助又は共同海損の分担のため被保険者が支払うべき金額を塡補する責任を負う。 art-817/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-817/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-817/par-1 An insurer is liable to compensate the relevant person for the amount to be paid by the insured to engage in marine salvage or share a general average. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 保険法第十九条の規定は、前項に規定する金額について準用する。この場合において、同条中「てん補損害額」とあるのは、「商法（明治三十二年法律第四十八号）第八百十七条第一項に規定する金額」と読み替えるものとする。 art-817/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-817/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-817/par-2 The provisions of Article 19 of the Insurance Act apply mutatis mutandis to the amount prescribed in the preceding paragraph. In this case, the phrase "amount of damage to be compensated for" in that Article is deemed to be replaced with "amount prescribed in Article 817, paragraph (1) of the Commercial Code (Act No. 48 of 1899)". Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-817/par-2: 保険法第十九条 → e-Gov law 420AC0000000056, 第十九条 (Article 19), art-19 — not held in this collection - art-817/par-2: 前項 → 商法 第八百十七条第一項 (Article 817, paragraph (1)), art-817/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-817/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-817/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 商法 第八百十七条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-817/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-817/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