Section 169
Statutory text (Thai original)
การแสดงเจตนาที่กระทำต่อบุคคลซึ่งมิได้อยู่เฉพาะหน้าให้ถือว่ามีผลนับแต่เวลาที่การแสดงเจตนานั้นไปถึงผู้รับการแสดงเจตนา แต่ถ้าได้บอกถอนไปถึงผู้รับการแสดงเจตนานั้นก่อนหรือพร้อมกันกับที่การแสดงเจตนานั้นไปถึงผู้รับการแสดงเจตนา การแสดงเจตนานั้นตกเป็นอันไร้ผลการแสดงเจตนาที่ได้ส่งออกไปแล้วย่อมไม่เสื่อมเสียไป แม้ภายหลังการแสดงเจตนานั้นผู้แสดงเจตนาจะถึงแก่ความตาย หรือถูกศาลสั่งให้เป็นคนไร้ความสามารถหรือคนเสมือนไร้ความสามารถ
Verbatim from the Royal Gazette / Office of the Council of State
English translation
A declaration of intention made to a person not in his presence takes effect from the time when it reached the receiver of the intention. If does not become effective if a revocation reaches him previously or simultaneously. Even though the person who made a declaration of intention dies, becomes incompetent or quasi- incompetent by an order of the Court after it has been sent, the validity of declaration is not impaired thereby.
This English translation is provided for reference only and has not yet been firm-verified. Always rely on the Thai original.
Firm annotation
Section 169 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 70 Supreme Court decisions (1950 to 2023)
Selected citing decisions
- Decision 3661/2566 (2023)
- Decision 670/2566 (2023)
- Decision 10808/2559 (2016)
- Decision 8612/2550 (2007)
- Decision 5901/2550 (2007)
- Decision 1602/2548 (2005)
- Decision 4392/2547 (2004)
- Decision 3846/2546 (2003)
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.
Most often cited alongside
- Section 164 20
- Section 193/12 12
- Section 165 9
- Section 193/30 7
- Section 166 7
- Section 168 6
Sections that appear in the same judgments as this one most often. The figure is the number of decisions.
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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Civil and Commercial Code, s. 169 (Thailand) -
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ป.พ.พ. มาตรา 169 -
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