Section 298
Statutory text (Thai original)
ถ้าบุคคลหลายคนมีสิทธิเรียกร้องการชำระหนี้โดยทำนองซึ่งแต่ละคนอาจจะเรียกให้ชำระหนี้สิ้นเชิงได้ไซร้ แม้ถึงว่าลูกหนี้จำต้องชำระหนี้สิ้นเชิงแต่เพียงครั้งเดียว (กล่าวคือเจ้าหนี้ร่วมกัน) ก็ดี ท่านว่าลูกหนี้จะชำระหนี้ให้แก่เจ้าหนี้แต่คนใดคนหนึ่งก็ได้ตามแต่จะเลือก ความข้อนี้ให้ใช้บังคับได้ แม้ทั้งที่เจ้าหนี้คนหนึ่งจะได้ยื่นฟ้องเรียกชำระหนี้ไว้แล้ว
Verbatim from the Royal Gazette / Office of the Council of State
English translation
If several persons are entitled to demand an act of performance in such manner that each can demand the whole performance, though the debtor is bound to effect the whole performance only once (i.e. joint creditors), the debtor may at his option perform in favour of any one of the creditors. This applies even if one of the creditors has already brought an action for the performance.
This English translation is provided for reference only and has not yet been firm-verified. Always rely on the Thai original.
Firm annotation
Section 298 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 17 Supreme Court decisions (1947 to 2013)
Selected citing decisions
- Decision 6040/2545 (2002)
- Decision 2847/2540 (1997)
- Decision 6846/2539 (1996)
- Decision 4824/2531 (1988)
- Decision 3189/2528 (1985)
- Decision 426/2526 (1983)
- Decision 580/2525 (1982)
- Decision 2372/2524 (1981)
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. These figures are computed by us and are not official court statistics.
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Plain citation
Civil and Commercial Code, s. 298 (Thailand) -
Academic citation
Civil and Commercial Code (Thailand), s. 298. ThaiLawOnline, https://www.thailawonline.com/thai-civil-code/section-298/ (accessed 8 August 2026). -
Thai citation
ป.พ.พ. มาตรา 298 -
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