Section 199
Statutory text (Thai original)
การเลือกนั้นท่านให้ทำด้วยแสดงเจตนาแก่คู่กรณีอีกฝ่ายหนึ่งการชำระหนี้ได้เลือกทำเป็นอย่างใดแล้ว ท่านให้ถือว่าอย่างนั้นอย่างเดียวเป็นการชำระหนี้อันกำหนดให้กระทำแต่ต้นมา
Verbatim from the Royal Gazette / Office of the Council of State
English translation
The election is made by a declaration of intention to the other party. The performance elected is deemed to be the only one due from the beginning.
This English translation is provided for reference only and has not yet been firm-verified. Always rely on the Thai original.
Firm annotation
Section 199 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 3 Supreme Court decisions (1974 to 2007)
Selected citing decisions
- Decision 9056/2550 (2007)
- Decision 4946/2538 (1995)
- Decision 1865/2517 (1974)
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.
Cite this section
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Plain citation
Civil and Commercial Code, s. 199 (Thailand) -
Academic citation
Civil and Commercial Code (Thailand), s. 199. ThaiLawOnline, https://www.thailawonline.com/thai-civil-code/section-199/ (accessed 8 August 2026). -
Thai citation
ป.พ.พ. มาตรา 199 -
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