Section 320
Statutory text (Thai original)
อันจะบังคับให้เจ้าหนี้รับชำระหนี้แต่เพียงบางส่วน หรือให้รับชำระหนี้เป็นอย่างอื่นผิดไปจากที่จะต้องชำระแก่เจ้าหนี้นั้น ท่านว่าหาอาจจะบังคับได้ไม่
Verbatim from the Royal Gazette / Office of the Council of State
English translation
The creditor cannot be compelled to receive part performance, or any performance other than that which is due to the creditor.
ThaiLawOnline translation, written from the Thai original and verified
Firm annotation
Section 320 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. The English translation is ThaiLawOnline's own, written from the Thai original and verified against it. Always rely on the Thai original for legal proceedings.
Cited in 11 Supreme Court decisions (1963 to 2015)
Selected citing decisions
- Decision 6157/2544 (2001)
- Decision 7384/2541 (1998)
- Decision 5377/2539 (1996)
- Decision 1701/2538 (1995)
- Decision 5088/2537 (1994)
- Decision 626/2537 (1994)
- Decision 2727/2530 (1987)
- Decision 765/2506 (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 83,772 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. 320 (Thailand) -
Academic citation
Civil and Commercial Code (Thailand), s. 320. ThaiLawOnline, https://www.thailawonline.com/thai-civil-code/section-320/ (accessed 8 August 2026). -
Thai citation
ป.พ.พ. มาตรา 320 -
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