Section 1435 — Minimum age for a betrothal
Statutory text (Thai original)
การหมั้นจะทำได้ต่อเมื่อบุคคลทั้งสองฝ่ายมีอายุสิบแปดปีบริบูรณ์แล้ว
การหมั้นที่ฝ่าฝืนบทบัญญัติวรรคหนึ่งเป็นโมฆะ
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English translation
A betrothal may be made only when both parties have completed their eighteenth year of age.
A betrothal made in contravention of paragraph one is void.
ThaiLawOnline translation, written from the Thai original and verified
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Section 1435 is part of Book 5 (Family) 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 (1975 to 2004)
Selected citing decisions
- Decision 3072/2547 (2004)
- Decision 4841/2540 (1997)
- Decision 2626/2518 (1975)
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.
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