Section 24
Statutory text (Thai original)
ผู้เยาว์อาจทำการใด ๆ ได้ทั้งสิ้น ซึ่งเป็นการสมแก่ฐานานุรูปแห่งตนและเป็นการอันจำเป็นในการดำรงชีพตามสมควร
Verbatim from the Royal Gazette / Office of the Council of State
English translation
A minor can do all acts which are suitable to his condition in life, and actually required for his reasonable needs.
This English translation is provided for reference only and has not yet been firm-verified. Always rely on the Thai original.
Firm annotation
Section 24 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.
Cited in 10 Supreme Court decisions (1954 to 2025)
Selected citing decisions
- Decision 18882-18883/2557 (2014)
- Decision 778/2538 (1995)
- Decision 3486/2532 (1989)
- Decision 79/2522 (1979)
- Decision 69-70/2516 (1973)
- Decision 18882/2557 (2014)
- Decision 2693/2540 (1997)
- Decision 856/2497 (1954)
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.
Related guides on ThaiLawOnline
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