Section 374: Contract in favour of a third party
Statutory text (Thai original)
ถ้าคู่สัญญาฝ่ายหนึ่งทำสัญญาตกลงว่าจะชำระหนี้แก่บุคคลภายนอกไซร้ ท่านว่าบุคคลภายนอกมีสิทธิจะเรียกชำระหนี้จากลูกหนี้โดยตรงได้ในกรณีดังกล่าวมาในวรรคต้นนั้น สิทธิของบุคคลภายนอกย่อมเกิดมีขึ้นตั้งแต่เวลาที่แสดงเจตนาแก่ลูกหนี้ว่าจะถือเอาประโยชน์จากสัญญานั้น
Verbatim from the Royal Gazette / Office of the Council of State
English translation
If a party by a contract agrees to make a performance to a third person, the latter has a right to claim such performance directly from the debtor. In the case of the foregoing paragraph the right of the third person comes into existence at the time when he declares to the debtor his intention to take the benefit of the contract.
This English translation is provided for reference only and has not yet been firm-verified. Always rely on the Thai original.
Firm annotation
Section 374 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 110 Supreme Court decisions (1950 to 2023)
Selected citing decisions
- Decision 3425-3426/2566 (2023)
- Decision 2529/2565 (2022)
- Decision 1170/2565 (2022)
- Decision 7565-7567/2561 (2018)
- Decision 6926/2560 (2017)
- Decision 4484/2559 (2016)
- Decision 2464/2559 (2016)
- Decision 14938/2558 (2015)
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.
Most often cited alongside
- Section 375 22
- Section 376 8
- Section 224 6
- Section 4 6
- Section 193/30 6
- Section 850 5
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