# 商法 / Commercial Code — 第八百四十七条 (Article 847) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-847. 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: 第八百四十七条 (Article 847)（船舶抵当権） — address `art-847` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-847 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-847 - 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. --- ### 第八百四十七条（船舶抵当権） — (Mortgage on Ship) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-847 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-847 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-847 **第一項** 登記した船舶は、抵当権の目的とすることができる。 art-847/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-847/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-847/par-1 A registered ship may be made the subject matter of a mortgage. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 船舶の抵当権は、その属具に及ぶ。 art-847/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-847/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-847/par-2 A mortgage on a ship extends to its equipment. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 船舶の抵当権には、不動産の抵当権に関する規定を準用する。この場合において、民法第三百八十四条第一号中「抵当権を実行して競売の申立てをしないとき」とあるのは、「抵当権の実行としての競売の申立て若しくはその提供を承諾しない旨の第三取得者に対する通知をせず、又はその通知をした債権者が抵当権の実行としての競売の申立てをすることができるに至った後一週間以内にこれをしないとき」と読み替えるものとする。 art-847/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-847/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-847/par-3 Provisions concerning mortgages on real property apply mutatis mutandis to a mortgage on a ship. In this case, the phrase "if an obligee does not enforce the mortgage by filing a petition for auction within two months" in Article 384, item (i) of the Civil Code is deemed to be replaced with "if an obligee does not enforce the mortgage by filing a petition for auction or give notice to the third party acquirer that the obligee has not approved its offer within two months, or if the obligee giving that notice does not enforce the mortgage by filing a petition for auction within one week after the obligee becomes able to file it". Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-847/par-3: 民法第三百八十四条第一号 → 民法 第三百八十四条第一項第一号 (Article 384, paragraph (1), item (i)), art-384/par-1/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-384/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-384/par-1/item-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