Section 1436
Statutory text (Thai original)
ผู้เยาว์จะทำการหมั้นได้ต้องได้รับความยินยอมของบุคคลดังต่อไปนี้ (๑) บิดาและมารดา ในกรณีที่มีทั้งบิดามารดา (๒) บิดาหรือมารดา ในกรณีที่มารดาหรือบิดาตายหรือถูกถอนอำนาจปกครองหรือไม่อยู่ในสภาพหรือฐานะที่อาจให้ความยินยอม หรือโดยพฤติการณ์ผู้เยาว์ไม่อาจขอความยินยอมจากมารดาหรือบิดาได้ (๓) ผู้รับบุตรบุญธรรม ในกรณีที่ผู้เยาว์เป็นบุตรบุญธรรม (๔) ผู้ปกครอง ในกรณีที่ไม่มีบุคคลซึ่งอาจให้ความยินยอมตาม (๑) (๒) และ (๓) หรือมีแต่บุคคลดังกล่าวถูกถอนอำนาจปกครอง การหมั้นที่ผู้เยาว์ทำโดยปราศจากความยินยอมดังกล่าวเป็นโมฆียะ
Verbatim from the Royal Gazette / Office of the Council of State
English translation
If a minor will conclude a betrothal, the consent of the following persons is required: (1) his or her parents, in case booth of his her father and mother are still alive; (2) his or her parent, in case his or her father or mother died, or is in condition of state of being unable to give consent, or is under the circumstances that make the minor unable to ask for such consent; (3) his or her adopter, in case the minor is and adopted child (4) his or her guardian, in case there is no person giving consent under (1), (2) and (3), or such person is deprived of parential power. A betrothal concluded by the minor without the said consent is voidable.
This English translation is provided for reference only and has not yet been firm-verified. Always rely on the Thai original.
Firm annotation
Section 1436 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 13 Supreme Court decisions (1945 to 1976)
Selected citing decisions
- Decision 2237/2519 (1976)
- Decision 2357/2518 (1975)
- Decision 767/2517 (1974)
- Decision 1778/2493 (1950)
- Decision 1198/2492 (1949)
- Decision 1049/2492 (1949)
- Decision 269/2488 (1945)
- Decision 1852/2506 (1963)
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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