Section 380
Statutory text (Thai original)
ถ้าลูกหนี้ได้สัญญาไว้ว่าจะให้เบี้ยปรับเมื่อตนไม่ชำระหนี้ เจ้าหนี้จะเรียกเอาเบี้ยปรับอันจะพึงริบนั้นแทนการชำระหนี้ก็ได้ แต่ถ้าเจ้าหนี้แสดงต่อลูกหนี้ว่าจะเรียกเอาเบี้ยปรับฉะนั้นแล้ว ก็เป็นอันขาดสิทธิเรียกร้องชำระหนี้อีกต่อไปถ้าเจ้าหนี้มีสิทธิเรียกร้องค่าสินไหมทดแทนเพื่อการไม่ชำระหนี้ จะเรียกเอาเบี้ยปรับอันจะพึงริบนั้นในฐานเป็นจำนวนน้อยที่สุดแห่งค่าเสียหายก็ได้ การพิสูจน์ค่าเสียหายยิ่งกว่านั้น ท่านก็อนุญาตให้พิสูจน์ได้
Verbatim from the Royal Gazette / Office of the Council of State
English translation
If the debtor has promised the penalty for the case of his not performing his obligation, his creditor may demand the forfeited penalty in lieu of performance. If the creditor declares to the debtor that he demands the penalty, the claim for performance is barred. If the creditor has a claim for compensation for non- performance, he may demand the forfeited penalty as the minimum amount of the damage. Proof of further damage is admissible.
This English translation is provided for reference only and has not yet been firm-verified. Always rely on the Thai original.
Firm annotation
Section 380 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 53 Supreme Court decisions (1946 to 2022)
Selected citing decisions
- Decision 56/2565 (2022)
- Decision 7620/2559 (2016)
- Decision 14175/2558 (2015)
- Decision 6030/2554 (2011)
- Decision 3830/2552 (2009)
- Decision 406/2548 (2005)
- Decision 1514/2546 (2003)
- Decision 333/2546 (2003)
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 383 17
- Section 381 9
- Thai CPC s. 142 5
- Section 379 5
- Section 222 4
- Section 382 4
Sections that appear in the same judgments as this one most often. The figure is the number of decisions.
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. 380 (Thailand) -
Academic citation
Civil and Commercial Code (Thailand), s. 380. ThaiLawOnline, https://www.thailawonline.com/thai-civil-code/section-380/ (accessed 8 August 2026). -
Thai citation
ป.พ.พ. มาตรา 380 -
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