Section 309
Statutory text (Thai original)
การโอนหนี้อันพึงต้องชำระตามเขาสั่งนั้น ท่านว่าจะยกขึ้นเป็นข้อต่อสู้ลูกหนี้หรือบุคคลภายนอกคนอื่นได้ แต่เฉพาะเมื่อการโอนนั้นได้สลักหลังไว้ในตราสาร และตัวตราสารนั้นได้ส่งมอบให้แก่ผู้รับโอนไปด้วย
Verbatim from the Royal Gazette / Office of the Council of State
English translation
The transfer of an obligation performable to order can be set up against the debtor or other third person only if the transfer is indorsed on the instrument, and the instrument itself is delivered to the transferee.
This English translation is provided for reference only and has not yet been firm-verified. Always rely on the Thai original.
Firm annotation
Section 309 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 (1964 to 1995)
Selected citing decisions
- Decision 6634/2538 (1995)
- Decision 1064/2507 (1964)
- Decision 1947-1950/2524 (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.
Cite this section
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Plain citation
Civil and Commercial Code, s. 309 (Thailand) -
Academic citation
Civil and Commercial Code (Thailand), s. 309. ThaiLawOnline, https://www.thailawonline.com/thai-civil-code/section-309/ (accessed 8 August 2026). -
Thai citation
ป.พ.พ. มาตรา 309 -
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