Section 131
Statutory text (Thai original)
นายทะเบียน พนักงานอัยการ หรือผู้มีส่วนได้เสียคนหนึ่งคนใดอาจร้องขอต่อศาลให้มีคำสั่งให้เลิกมูลนิธิได้ในกรณีหนึ่งกรณีใด ดังต่อไปนี้(๑) เมื่อปรากฏว่าวัตถุประสงค์ของมูลนิธิขัดต่อกฎหมาย (๒) เมื่อปรากฏว่ามูลนิธิกระทำการขัดต่อกฎหมายหรือศีลธรรมอันดีของประชาชน หรืออาจเป็นภยันตรายต่อความสงบสุขของประชาชนหรือความมั่นคงของรัฐ (๓) เมื่อปรากฏว่ามูลนิธิไม่สามารถดำเนินกิจการต่อไปได้ไม่ว่าเพราะเหตุใด ๆ หรือหยุดดำเนินกิจการตั้งแต่สองปีขึ้นไป
Verbatim from the Royal Gazette / Office of the Council of State
English translation
On the application of the registrar, the public prosecutors or of any interested person, the court may order a foundation t o be dissolved in the following cases; (1) It appears that the objects of the foundation are contrary to the law. (2) It appears that the foundation has done the business contrary to the law and good moral, or may endanger the public peace or national security. (3) It appears that the foundation cannot proceed on its activities by any cause whatsoever or has stopped doing business for more than two years.
This English translation is provided for reference only and has not yet been firm-verified. Always rely on the Thai original.
Firm annotation
Section 131 is part of Book 1 (General Principles) 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 3 Supreme Court decisions (1954 to 1997)
Selected citing decisions
- Decision 2567-2568/2540 (1997)
- Decision 17-18/2497 (1954)
- Decision 2568/2540 (1997)
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. These figures are computed by us and are not official court statistics.
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Plain citation
Civil and Commercial Code, s. 131 (Thailand) -
Academic citation
Civil and Commercial Code (Thailand), s. 131. ThaiLawOnline, https://www.thailawonline.com/thai-civil-code/section-131/ (accessed 8 August 2026). -
Thai citation
ป.พ.พ. มาตรา 131 -
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