Section 14
Statutory text (Thai original)
ในกรณีที่เอกสารทำขึ้นไว้หลายภาษา ไม่ว่าจะเป็นฉบับเดียวกันหรือหลายฉบับก็ตามโดยมีภาษาไทยด้วย ถ้าข้อความในหลายภาษานั้นแตกต่างกัน และมิอาจหยั่งทราบเจตนาของคู่กรณีได้ว่าจะใช้ภาษาใดบังคับ ให้ถือตามภาษาไทย
Verbatim from the Royal Gazette / Office of the Council of State
English translation
Whenever a document is executed in two versions, one in the Thai language, the other in another language, and there are discrepancies between the two versions, and it cannot be ascertained which version was intended to govern, the document executed in the Thai language shall govern.
This English translation is provided for reference only and has not yet been firm-verified. Always rely on the Thai original.
Firm annotation
Section 14 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 8 Supreme Court decisions (1949 to 2006)
Selected citing decisions
- Decision 1254/2546 (2003)
- Decision 918/2544 (2001)
- Decision 8462/2542 (1999)
- Decision 943/2538 (1995)
- Decision 1663-1664/2529 (1986)
- Decision 145/2524 (1981)
- Decision 4857/2549 (2006)
- Decision 1197/2492 (1949)
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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Civil and Commercial Code, s. 14 (Thailand) -
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ป.พ.พ. มาตรา 14 -
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