Section 194: Creditor's right to claim performance
Statutory text (Thai original)
ด้วยอำนาจแห่งมูลหนี้ เจ้าหนี้ย่อมมีสิทธิจะเรียกให้ลูกหนี้ชำระหนี้ได้ อนึ่ง การชำระหนี้ด้วยงดเว้นการอันใดอันหนึ่งก็ย่อมมีได้
Verbatim from the Royal Gazette / Office of the Council of State
English translation
by virtue of an obligation the creditor is entitled to claim performance from the debtor. The performance may consist in a forbearance.
This English translation is provided for reference only and has not yet been firm-verified. Always rely on the Thai original.
Firm annotation
Section 194 is part of Book 2 (Obligations) 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 (1965 to 2021)
Selected citing decisions
- Decision 3344/2564 (2021)
- Decision 2161/2558 (2015)
- Decision 2159/2543 (2000)
- Decision 3356/2540 (1997)
- Decision 2545/2524 (1981)
- Decision 2095/2524 (1981)
- Decision 409/2524 (1981)
- Decision 185/2512 (1969)
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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Civil and Commercial Code, s. 194 (Thailand) -
Academic citation
Civil and Commercial Code (Thailand), s. 194. ThaiLawOnline, https://www.thailawonline.com/thai-civil-code/section-194/ (accessed 28 August 2026). -
Thai citation
ป.พ.พ. มาตรา 194 -
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