Section 1170
Statutory text (Thai original)
เมื่อการซึ่งกรรมการคนใดได้ทำไปได้รับอนุมัติของที่ประชุมใหญ่แล้ว ท่านว่ากรรมการคนนั้นไม่ต้องรับผิดในการนั้นต่อผู้ถือหุ้นซึ่งได้ให้อนุมัติหรือต่อบริษัทอีกต่อไปท่านห้ามมิให้ผู้ถือหุ้นซึ่งมิได้ให้อนุมัติด้วยนั้นฟ้องคดีเมื่อพ้นเวลาหกเดือนนับแต่วันที่ประชุมใหญ่ให้อนุมัติแก่การเช่นว่านั้น๓. ประชุมใหญ่
Verbatim from the Royal Gazette / Office of the Council of State
English translation
When the acts of a director have been approved by a general meeting, such director is no longer liable for the said acts to the shareholders who have approved them, or to the company. Shareholders who did not approve of such acts cannot enter their action later than six months after the date of the general meeting on which such acts were approved. 3.
This English translation is provided for reference only and has not yet been firm-verified. Always rely on the Thai original.
Firm annotation
Section 1170 is part of Book 3 (Specific Contracts) of the Thai Civil and Commercial Code. This entry is awaiting firm-authored commentary; the statutory text above is verbatim from the Office of the Council of State (OCS Krisdika) Thai source, with the English translation from the FAO/UN FAOLEX repository. Always rely on the Thai original for legal proceedings.
Cited in 4 Supreme Court decisions (1946 to 2001)
Selected citing decisions
- Decision 698/2530 (1987)
- Decision 9862/2544 (2001)
- Decision 7516/2538 (1995)
- Decision 489/2489 (1946)
This list is selected automatically, weighted towards judgments that turn on this section rather than ones that merely recite it when passing sentence. It has not yet been reviewed by the firm.
Counted across the firm's corpus of 83,652 Supreme Court decisions, 1921 to 2026. The count is complete; the stated year range trims rare outliers so it describes where the citations actually sit. These figures are computed by us and are not official court statistics. How we count these, and what we measured
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