Section 153
Statutory text (Thai original)
การใดมิได้เป็นไปตามบทบัญญัติของกฎหมายว่าด้วยความสามารถของบุคคล การนั้นเป็นโมฆียะ
Verbatim from the Royal Gazette / Office of the Council of State
English translation
An act which does not comply with the requirements concerning capacity of person 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 153 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 5 Supreme Court decisions (1976 to 1998)
Selected citing decisions
- Decision 3350/2541 (1998)
- Decision 2214/2526 (1983)
- Decision 3249/2531 (1988)
- Decision 1106/2527 (1984)
- Decision 525/2519 (1976)
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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