Section 251
Statutory text (Thai original)
ผู้ทรงบุริมสิทธิย่อมทรงไว้ซึ่งสิทธิเหนือทรัพย์สินของลูกหนี้ในการที่จะได้รับชำระหนี้อันค้างชำระแก่ตนจากทรัพย์สินนั้นก่อนเจ้าหนี้อื่น ๆ โดยนัยดังบัญญัติไว้ในประมวลกฎหมายนี้ หรือบทกฎหมายอื่น
Verbatim from the Royal Gazette / Office of the Council of State
English translation
A holder of a preferential right has, according to the provisions of this Code or other laws, a right as to the property of his debtor to receive therefrom performance of an obligation due to him in preference to other creditors.
This English translation is provided for reference only and has not yet been firm-verified. Always rely on the Thai original.
Firm annotation
Section 251 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 (1963 to 2015)
Selected citing decisions
- Decision 15479/2558 (2015)
- Decision 7050/2549 (2006)
- Decision 1378/2506 (1963)
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.
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Plain citation
Civil and Commercial Code, s. 251 (Thailand) -
Academic citation
Civil and Commercial Code (Thailand), s. 251. ThaiLawOnline, https://www.thailawonline.com/thai-civil-code/section-251/ (accessed 8 August 2026). -
Thai citation
ป.พ.พ. มาตรา 251 -
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