Section 294
Statutory text (Thai original)
การที่เจ้าหนี้ผิดนัดต่อลูกหนี้ร่วมกันคนหนึ่งนั้น ย่อมได้เป็นคุณประโยชน์แก่ลูกหนี้คนอื่น ๆ ด้วย
Verbatim from the Royal Gazette / Office of the Council of State
English translation
The default of the creditor towards one joint debtor avails also in favour of the other debtors.
This English translation is provided for reference only and has not yet been firm-verified. Always rely on the Thai original.
Firm annotation
Section 294 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 2 Supreme Court decisions (1957 to 1963)
Selected citing decisions
- Decision 950/2500 (1957)
- Decision 480/2506 (1963)
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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.
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Plain citation
Civil and Commercial Code, s. 294 (Thailand) -
Academic citation
Civil and Commercial Code (Thailand), s. 294. ThaiLawOnline, https://www.thailawonline.com/thai-civil-code/section-294/ (accessed 8 August 2026). -
Thai citation
ป.พ.พ. มาตรา 294 -
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