Section 193/14 — Interruption of prescription
Statutory text (Thai original)
อายุความย่อมสะดุดหยุดลงในกรณีดังต่อไปนี้ (๑) ลูกหนี้รับสภาพหนี้ต่อเจ้าหนี้ตามสิทธิเรียกร้องโดยทำเป็นหนังสือรับสภาพหนี้ให้ ชำระหนี้ให้บางส่วน ชำระดอกเบี้ย ให้ประกัน หรือกระทำการใด ๆ อันปราศจากข้อสงสัยแสดงให้เห็นเป็นปริยายว่ายอมรับสภาพหนี้ตามสิทธิเรียกร้อง (๒) เจ้าหนี้ได้ฟ้องคดีเพื่อตั้งหลักฐานสิทธิเรียกร้องหรือเพื่อให้ชำระหนี้ (๓) เจ้าหนี้ได้ยื่นคำขอรับชำระหนี้ในคดีล้มละลาย (๔) เจ้าหนี้ได้มอบข้อพิพาทให้อนุญาโตตุลาการพิจารณา (๕) เจ้าหนี้ได้กระทำการอื่นใดอันมีผลเป็นอย่างเดียวกันกับการฟ้องคดี
Verbatim from the Royal Gazette / Office of the Council of State
English translation
Prescription is interrupted if: (1) The debtor has acknowledged the claim towards the creditor by written acknowledgement, by part payment, payment of interest, giving security, or by any unequivocal act which implies the acknowledgment of the claim. (2) The creditor enters an action for the establishment of the claim or for requiring performance. (3) The creditor applies for receiving a debt to arbitration. (4) The creditor submits the dispute to arbitration. (5) The creditor does any act which brings an effect equivalent to entering an action.
This English translation is provided for reference only and has not yet been firm-verified. Always rely on the Thai original.
Firm annotation
Section 193/14 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.
Why this matters in practice
For lawyers: part payment or a written acknowledgment restarts the limitation clock; document all such events carefully. For laypersons: if you make even a small payment on a debt, the time limit for the creditor to sue resets from that date.
Legislative history
Introduced as part of the comprehensive prescription reform in Book 1 of the CCC; no major subsequent amendment to this section.
Supreme Court decisions interpreting this section
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Supreme Court Judgment No. 4602/2562 (2019)
An official demand by the trustee in bankruptcy constitutes an act equivalent to filing suit, interrupting prescription under Section 193/14(5).
A written demand by the Official Receiver to the defendants to repay a debt constituted an act equivalent to filing suit under Section 193/14(5), causing prescription to be interrupted. The plaintiff who later purchased the claim was entitled to rely on that interruption.
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Supreme Court Judgment No. 16836/2557 (2014)
An heir's payment of instalments under the deceased's hire-purchase agreement constitutes acknowledgment of the claim, interrupting prescription.
An heir who continued paying hire-purchase instalments within one year of the original debtor's death was held to have acknowledged the claim under Section 193/14(3), thereby interrupting prescription.
Curated decisions with case numbers verified against the Supreme Court database. English renderings are the firm's editorial translation for study.
Cited in 173 Supreme Court decisions (1993 to 2025)
Selected citing decisions
- Decision 7470/2568 (2025)
- Decision 8084/2567 (2024)
- Decision 4557/2566 (2023)
- Decision 4374/2566 (2023)
- Decision 4050/2566 (2023)
- Decision 178/2566 (2023)
- Decision 3872-3873/2566 (2023)
- Decision 158/2565 (2022)
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 193/15 50
- Section 193/34 31
- Section 193/30 27
- Section 193/12 20
- Section 193/32 19
- Section 172 19
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. 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.
Frequently asked questions
Does making a partial payment on a debt interrupt prescription?
Yes. Under Section 193/14(1), a part payment is an acknowledgment of the claim that interrupts prescription. After interruption, the prescription period begins running again from zero.
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Plain citation
Civil and Commercial Code, s. 193/14 (Thailand) -
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