Book 1 — General Principles

Section 190 — Condition depending on the will of the debtor

Statutory text (Thai original)

นิติกรรมใดมีเงื่อนไขบังคับก่อนและเป็นเงื่อนไขอันจะสำเร็จได้หรือไม่ สุดแล้วแต่ใจของฝ่ายลูกหนี้ นิติกรรมนั้นเป็นโมฆะ

Verbatim from the Royal Gazette / Office of the Council of State

English translation

A juristic act subject to a condition precedent whose fulfilment depends entirely on the will of the debtor is void.

ThaiLawOnline translation, written from the Thai original and verified

Firm annotation

Section 190 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. The English translation is ThaiLawOnline's own, written from the Thai original and verified against it. Always rely on the Thai original for legal proceedings.

Cited in 9 Supreme Court decisions (1960 to 2004)

Selected citing decisions

  • Decision 6902/2543 (2000)
  • Decision 693/2537 (1994)
  • Decision 2348/2536 (1993)
  • Decision 4137/2535 (1992)
  • Decision 1413/2534 (1991)
  • Decision 873/2508 (1965)
  • Decision 8171/2547 (2004)
  • Decision 1639/2547 (2004)

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. These figures are computed by us and are not official court statistics.

Related guides on ThaiLawOnline

Cite this section

  • Plain citation Civil and Commercial Code, s. 190 (Thailand)
  • Academic citation Civil and Commercial Code (Thailand), s. 190. ThaiLawOnline, https://www.thailawonline.com/thai-civil-code/section-190/ (accessed 8 August 2026).
  • Thai citation ป.พ.พ. มาตรา 190
  • Permalink https://www.thailawonline.com/thai-civil-code/section-190/
  • Embed on your site <blockquote cite="https://www.thailawonline.com/thai-civil-code/section-190/"><p>A juristic act subject to a condition precedent whose fulfilment depends entirely on the will of the debtor is void.</p><footer>Civil and Commercial Code, s. 190 (Thailand) — <a href="https://www.thailawonline.com/thai-civil-code/section-190/">ThaiLawOnline</a></footer></blockquote>

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