Section 353
Statutory text (Thai original)
ถ้าสิทธิและความรับผิดในหนี้รายใดตกอยู่แก่บุคคลคนเดียวกัน ท่านว่าหนี้รายนั้นเป็นอันระงับสิ้นไป เว้นแต่เมื่อหนี้นั้นตกไปอยู่ในบังคับแห่งสิทธิของบุคคลภายนอก หรือเมื่อสลักหลังตั๋วเงินกลับคืนตามความในมาตรา ๙๑๗ วรรค ๓
Verbatim from the Royal Gazette / Office of the Council of State
English translation
If rights and liabilities in an obligation become vested in the same person, the obligation is extinguished, except when it has become the subject of the right of a third person, or when a bill has been re- indorsed according Section 917 paragraph 3.
This English translation is provided for reference only and has not yet been firm-verified. Always rely on the Thai original.
Firm annotation
Section 353 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 5 Supreme Court decisions (1963 to 2008)
Selected citing decisions
- Decision 8829/2551 (2008)
- Decision 1509/2549 (2006)
- Decision 1362/2520 (1977)
- Decision 366/2506 (1963)
- Decision 5758/2539 (1996)
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. 353 (Thailand) -
Academic citation
Civil and Commercial Code (Thailand), s. 353. ThaiLawOnline, https://www.thailawonline.com/thai-civil-code/section-353/ (accessed 8 August 2026). -
Thai citation
ป.พ.พ. มาตรา 353 -
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