Section 440
Statutory text (Thai original)
ในกรณีที่ต้องใช้ราคาทรัพย์อันได้เอาของเขาไปก็ดี ในกรณีที่ต้องใช้ราคาทรัพย์อันลดน้อยลงเพราะบุบสลายก็ดี ฝ่ายผู้ต้องเสียหายจะเรียกดอกเบี้ยในจำนวนเงินที่จะต้องใช้ คิดตั้งแต่เวลาอันเป็นฐานที่ตั้งแห่งการประมาณราคานั้นก็ได้
Verbatim from the Royal Gazette / Office of the Council of State
English translation
If on account of the taking of a thing its value, or, on account of damage to a thing, its diminution in value is to be made good, the injured party may demand interest on the amount to be made good from the time which serves as the basis for the estimate of the value.
This English translation is provided for reference only and has not yet been firm-verified. Always rely on the Thai original.
Firm annotation
Section 440 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 7 Supreme Court decisions (1951 to 2021)
Selected citing decisions
- Decision 2638/2564 (2021)
- Decision 11224/2555 (2012)
- Decision 6385/2544 (2001)
- Decision 6035/2537 (1994)
- Decision 446/2494 (1951)
- Decision 809/2498 (1955)
- Decision 3091/2535 (1992)
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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