Section 388
Statutory text (Thai original)
ถ้าวัตถุที่ประสงค์แห่งสัญญานั้น ว่าโดยสภาพหรือโดยเจตนาที่คู่สัญญาได้แสดงไว้ จะเป็นผลสำเร็จได้ก็แต่ด้วยการชำระหนี้ ณ เวลามีกำหนดก็ดี หรือภายในระยะเวลาอันใดอันหนึ่งซึ่งกำหนดไว้ก็ดี และกำหนดเวลาหรือระยะเวลานั้นได้ล่วงพ้นไปโดยฝ่ายใดฝ่ายหนึ่งมิได้ชำระหนี้ไซร้ ท่านว่าอีกฝ่ายหนึ่งจะเลิกสัญญานั้นเสียก็ได้ มิพักต้องบอกกล่าวดังว่าไว้ในมาตราก่อนนั้นเลย
Verbatim from the Royal Gazette / Office of the Council of State
English translation
If the object of a contract according to its nature or to an intention declared by the parties can be accomplished only by performance at a fixed time or within a fixed period, and such time or period has passed without one of the parties having performed, the other party may rescind the contract without the notification mentioned in the foregoing section.
This English translation is provided for reference only and has not yet been firm-verified. Always rely on the Thai original.
Firm annotation
Section 388 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 36 Supreme Court decisions (1951 to 2012)
Selected citing decisions
- Decision 10625/2555 (2012)
- Decision 3175/2554 (2011)
- Decision 3934/2552 (2009)
- Decision 3532/2552 (2009)
- Decision 848/2552 (2009)
- Decision 6473/2551 (2008)
- Decision 417/2549 (2006)
- Decision 8171/2547 (2004)
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 387 19
- Section 219 4
- Section 378 4
- Section 204 3
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Civil and Commercial Code, s. 388 (Thailand) -
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ป.พ.พ. มาตรา 388 -
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