Book 2: Obligations

Section 223

Statutory text (Thai original)

ถ้าฝ่ายผู้เสียหายได้มีส่วนทำความผิดอย่างใดอย่างหนึ่งก่อให้เกิดความเสียหายด้วยไซร้ ท่านว่าหนี้อันจะต้องใช้ค่าสินไหมทดแทนแก่ฝ่ายผู้เสียหายมากน้อยเพียงใดนั้นต้องอาศัยพฤติการณ์เป็นประมาณ ข้อสำคัญก็คือว่าความเสียหายนั้นได้เกิดขึ้นเพราะฝ่ายไหนเป็นผู้ก่อยิ่งหย่อนกว่ากันเพียงไร วิธีเดียวกันนี้ ท่านให้ใช้แม้ทั้งที่ความผิดของฝ่ายผู้ที่เสียหายจะมีแต่เพียงละเลยไม่เตือนลูกหนี้ให้รู้สึกถึงอันตรายแห่งการเสียหายอันเป็นอย่างร้ายแรงผิดปกติ ซึ่งลูกหนี้ไม่รู้หรือไม่อาจจะรู้ได้ หรือเพียงแต่ละเลยไม่บำบัดปัดป้อง หรือบรรเทาความเสียหายนั้นด้วย อนึ่งบทบัญญัติแห่งมาตรา ๒๒๐ นั้นท่านให้นำมาใช้บังคับด้วยโดยอนุโลม

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

English translation

If any fault of the injured party has continued in causing the injury, the obligation to compensate the injured party and the extent of the compensation to be made depends upon the circumstances, especially upon how far the injury has been caused chiefly by the one or the other party. This applies also even if the fault of the injured party consisted only in an omission to call the attention of the debtor to the danger of an unusually serious injury which the debtor neither knew not ought to have known, or in an omission to avert or mitigate the injury. The provisions of Section 220 apply mutatis mtandis.

This English translation is provided for reference only and has not yet been firm-verified. Always rely on the Thai original.

Firm annotation

Section 223 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 97 Supreme Court decisions (1956 to 2025)

Selected citing decisions

  • Decision 145/2568 (2025)
  • Decision 4568/2566 (2023)
  • Decision 3181/2565 (2022)
  • Decision 1802/2565 (2022)
  • Decision 2378/2564 (2021)
  • Decision 6964/2561 (2018)
  • Decision 5439/2561 (2018)
  • Decision 5396/2561 (2018)

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

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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.

Cite this section

  • Plain citation Civil and Commercial Code, s. 223 (Thailand)
  • Academic citation Civil and Commercial Code (Thailand), s. 223. ThaiLawOnline, https://www.thailawonline.com/thai-civil-code/section-223/ (accessed 8 August 2026).
  • Thai citation ป.พ.พ. มาตรา 223
  • Permalink https://www.thailawonline.com/thai-civil-code/section-223/
  • Embed on your site <blockquote cite="https://www.thailawonline.com/thai-civil-code/section-223/"><p>If any fault of the injured party has continued in causing the injury, the obligation to compensate the injured party and the extent of the compensation to be made depends upon the circumstances, especially upon how far the injury has been caused chiefly by the…</p><footer>Civil and Commercial Code, s. 223 (Thailand) — <a href="https://www.thailawonline.com/thai-civil-code/section-223/">ThaiLawOnline</a></footer></blockquote>

The Thai text is authoritative. The English is an unofficial translation by ThaiLawOnline, free to reuse with attribution.

This is educational reference, not legal advice. Consult a qualified Thai lawyer before relying on any provision.

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