Section 419
Statutory text (Thai original)
ในเรื่องลาภมิควรได้นั้น ท่านห้ามมิให้ฟ้องคดีเมื่อพ้นกำหนดปีหนึ่งนับแต่เวลาที่ฝ่ายผู้เสียหายรู้ว่าตนมีสิทธิเรียกคืน หรือเมื่อพ้นสิบปีนับแต่เวลาที่สิทธินั้นได้มีขึ้น
Verbatim from the Royal Gazette / Office of the Council of State
English translation
No action on account of undue enrichment can be entered later than one year from the time when the injured party became aware of his right to restitution or later than 10 years from the time when the right accrued.
This English translation is provided for reference only and has not yet been firm-verified. Always rely on the Thai original.
Firm annotation
Section 419 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 82 Supreme Court decisions (1956 to 2024)
Selected citing decisions
- Decision 5783/2567 (2024)
- Decision 4656/2566 (2023)
- Decision 4370/2566 (2023)
- Decision 131/2565 (2022)
- Decision 7900/2561 (2018)
- Decision 7730/2560 (2017)
- Decision 4751/2559 (2016)
- Decision 584/2558 (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 406 21
- Section 1336 14
- Section 193/30 13
- Section 164 13
- Section 224 6
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. 419 (Thailand) -
Academic citation
Civil and Commercial Code (Thailand), s. 419. ThaiLawOnline, https://www.thailawonline.com/thai-civil-code/section-419/ (accessed 8 August 2026). -
Thai citation
ป.พ.พ. มาตรา 419 -
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