Section 203 — Time of performance — no time fixed
Statutory text (Thai original)
ถ้าเวลาอันจะพึงชำระหนี้นั้นมิได้กำหนดลงไว้ หรือจะอนุมานจากพฤติการณ์ทั้งปวงก็ไม่ได้ไซร้ ท่านว่าเจ้าหนี้ย่อมจะเรียกให้ชำระหนี้ได้โดยพลัน และฝ่ายลูกหนี้ก็ย่อมจะชำระหนี้ของตนได้โดยพลันดุจกันถ้าได้กำหนดเวลาไว้ แต่หากกรณีเป็นที่สงสัย ท่านให้สันนิษฐานไว้ก่อนว่าเจ้าหนี้จะเรียกให้ชำระหนี้ก่อนถึงเวลานั้นหาได้ไม่ แต่ฝ่ายลูกหนี้จะชำระหนี้ก่อนกำหนดนั้นก็ได้
Verbatim from the Royal Gazette / Office of the Council of State
English translation
If a time for performance is neither fixed nor to be inferred from the circumstances, the creditor may demand the performance forthwith, and the debtor may perform his part forthwith. If a time is fixed, it is to be presumed, in case of doubt, that the creditor may not demand the performance before that time; the debtor, however, may perform earlier.
This English translation is provided for reference only and has not yet been firm-verified. Always rely on the Thai original.
Firm annotation
Section 203 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 53 Supreme Court decisions (1966 to 2025)
Selected citing decisions
- Decision 961/2566 (2023)
- Decision 2215/2565 (2022)
- Decision 459/2565 (2022)
- Decision 4127/2564 (2021)
- Decision 3837/2564 (2021)
- Decision 583/2562 (2019)
- Decision 6282/2559 (2016)
- Decision 14792/2558 (2015)
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 224 15
- Section 204 10
- Thai CPC s. 142 6
- Section 193/30 6
- Thai CPC s. 249 6
- Section 7 5
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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Plain citation
Civil and Commercial Code, s. 203 (Thailand) -
Academic citation
Civil and Commercial Code (Thailand), s. 203. ThaiLawOnline, https://www.thailawonline.com/thai-civil-code/section-203/ (accessed 8 August 2026). -
Thai citation
ป.พ.พ. มาตรา 203 -
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