Section 473
Statutory text (Thai original)
ผู้ขายย่อมไม่ต้องรับผิดในกรณีดังจะกล่าวต่อไปนี้ คือ(๑) ถ้าผู้ซื้อได้รู้อยู่แล้วแต่ในเวลาซื้อขายว่ามีความชำรุดบกพร่อง หรือควรจะได้รู้เช่นนั้นหากได้ใช้ความระมัดระวังอันจะพึงคาดหมายได้แต่วิญญูชน(๒) ถ้าความชำรุดบกพร่องนั้นเป็นอันเห็นประจักษ์แล้วในเวลาส่งมอบ และผู้ซื้อรับเอาทรัพย์สินนั้นไว้โดยมิได้อิดเอื้อน(๓) ถ้าทรัพย์สินนั้นได้ขายทอดตลาด
Verbatim from the Royal Gazette / Office of the Council of State
English translation
The seller is not liable in the following cases: (1) If the buyer knew of the defect at the time of sale, or would have known of it if he had exercised such care as might be expected from a person of ordinary prudence. (2) If the defect was apparent at the time of the delivery, and the buyer accepts the property without reservation. (3) If the property was ;old by public auction.
This English translation is provided for reference only and has not yet been firm-verified. Always rely on the Thai original.
Firm annotation
Section 473 is part of Book 3 (Specific Contracts) 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 4 Supreme Court decisions (1949 to 2012)
Selected citing decisions
- Decision 17002/2555 (2012)
- Decision 5581/2533 (1990)
- Decision 1593/2554 (2011)
- Decision 763/2492 (1949)
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. The count is complete; the stated year range trims rare outliers so it describes where the citations actually sit. These figures are computed by us and are not official court statistics. How we count these, and what we measured
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