Section 290
Statutory text (Thai original)
ถ้าการชำระหนี้เป็นการอันจะแบ่งกันชำระได้ และมีบุคคลหลายคนเป็นลูกหนี้ก็ดี มีบุคคลหลายคนเป็นเจ้าหนี้ก็ดี เมื่อกรณีเป็นที่สงสัย ท่านว่าลูกหนี้แต่ละคนจะต้องรับผิดเพียงเป็นส่วนเท่า ๆ กัน และเจ้าหนี้แต่ละคนก็ชอบที่จะได้รับแต่เพียงเป็นส่วนเท่า ๆ กัน
Verbatim from the Royal Gazette / Office of the Council of State
English translation
If several persons owe a divisible performance, or if a divisible performance is owed to several persons, each debtor is, in case of doubt liable only for an equal share, and each creditor is entitled to an equal share.
This English translation is provided for reference only and has not yet been firm-verified. Always rely on the Thai original.
Firm annotation
Section 290 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 9 Supreme Court decisions (1953 to 2015)
Selected citing decisions
- Decision 586/2558 (2015)
- Decision 22850/2555 (2012)
- Decision 4703/2550 (2007)
- Decision 7511/2537 (1994)
- Decision 2242/2523 (1980)
- Decision 1383/2496 (1953)
- Decision 1155/2537 (1994)
- Decision 1116/2511 (1968)
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. How we count these, and what we measured
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Civil and Commercial Code, s. 290 (Thailand) -
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ป.พ.พ. มาตรา 290 -
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