# 商法 / Commercial Code — 第八百二十七条 (Article 827) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-827. 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: 第八百二十七条 (Article 827)（貨物の損傷等の場合の塡補責任） — address `art-827` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-827 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-827 - 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. --- ### 第八百二十七条（貨物の損傷等の場合の塡補責任） — (Liability to Compensate If Cargo Is Damaged) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-827 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-827 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-827 **第一項** 保険の目的物である貨物が損傷し、又はその一部が滅失して到達地に到着したときは、保険者は、第一号に掲げる額の第二号に掲げる額に対する割合を保険価額（約定保険価額があるときは、当該約定保険価額）に乗じて得た額を塡補する責任を負う。 art-827/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-827/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-827/par-1 If cargo constituting insured property arrives at the destination damaged or partially lost, the insurer is liable to compensate for the amount arrived at when the insured value (or the agreed insured value, if specified) is multiplied by the proportion of the amount set forth in item (i) to the amount set forth in item (ii): Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 当該貨物に損傷又は一部滅失がなかったとした場合の当該貨物の価額から損傷又は一部滅失後の当該貨物の価額を控除した額 art-827/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-827/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-827/par-1/item-1 the amount arrived at when the value of the cargo that has been damaged or partially lost is deducted from the value that the cargo would have if it had not been damaged or partially lost; and Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 当該貨物に損傷又は一部滅失がなかったとした場合の当該貨物の価額 art-827/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-827/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-827/par-1/item-2 the value that the cargo would have had if it had not been damaged or partially lost. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-827/par-1: 第一号 → 商法 第八百二十七条第一項第一号 (Article 827, paragraph (1), item (i)), art-827/par-1/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-827/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-827/par-1/item-1 - art-827/par-1: 第二号 → 商法 第八百二十七条第一項第二号 (Article 827, paragraph (1), item (ii)), art-827/par-1/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-827/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-827/par-1/item-2 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 商法 第八百二十七条第一項（貨物の損傷等の場合の塡補責任） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-827/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-827/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