Section 422
Statutory text (Thai original)
ถ้าความเสียหายเกิดแต่การฝ่าฝืนบทบังคับแห่งกฎหมายใดอันมีที่ประสงค์ เพื่อจะปกป้องบุคคลอื่น ๆ ผู้ใดทำการฝ่าฝืนเช่นนั้น ท่านให้สันนิษฐานไว้ก่อนว่าผู้นั้นเป็นผู้ผิด
Verbatim from the Royal Gazette / Office of the Council of State
English translation
If damage results from an infringement of a statutory provision intended for the protection of others, the person who so infringes is presumed to be in fault.
This English translation is provided for reference only and has not yet been firm-verified. Always rely on the Thai original.
Firm annotation
Section 422 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 23 Supreme Court decisions (1949 to 2022)
Selected citing decisions
- Decision 4269/2565 (2022)
- Decision 2417/2562 (2019)
- Decision 6248/2555 (2012)
- Decision 7973-7975/2548 (2005)
- Decision 4638/2546 (2003)
- Decision 290/2542 (1999)
- Decision 4109/2539 (1996)
- Decision 67/2539 (1996)
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 420 8
- Section 224 3
- Section 438 3
- Section 206 3
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.
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Plain citation
Civil and Commercial Code, s. 422 (Thailand) -
Academic citation
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Thai citation
ป.พ.พ. มาตรา 422 -
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