Section 395
Statutory text (Thai original)
บุคคลใดเข้าทำกิจการแทนผู้อื่นโดยเขามิได้ว่าขานวานใช้ให้ทำก็ดี หรือโดยมิได้มีสิทธิที่จะทำการงานนั้นแทนผู้อื่นด้วยประการใดก็ดี ท่านว่าบุคคลนั้นจะต้องจัดการงานไปในทางที่จะให้สมประโยชน์ของตัวการ ตามความประสงค์อันแท้จริงของตัวการ หรือตามที่จะพึงสันนิษฐานได้ว่าเป็นความประสงค์ของตัวการ
Verbatim from the Royal Gazette / Office of the Council of State
English translation
A person who takes charge of an affair for another without having received mandate from him or being otherwise entitled to do so in respect of him, shall manage the affair in such manner as the interest of the principal requires, having regard to his actual or presumptive wishes.
This English translation is provided for reference only and has not yet been firm-verified. Always rely on the Thai original.
Firm annotation
Section 395 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 2 Supreme Court decisions (1960 to 2015)
Selected citing decisions
- Decision 3804/2558 (2015)
- Decision 630/2503 (1960)
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.
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Plain citation
Civil and Commercial Code, s. 395 (Thailand) -
Academic citation
Civil and Commercial Code (Thailand), s. 395. ThaiLawOnline, https://www.thailawonline.com/thai-civil-code/section-395/ (accessed 8 August 2026). -
Thai citation
ป.พ.พ. มาตรา 395 -
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