Section 503
Statutory text (Thai original)
ในการขายตามตัวอย่างนั้น ผู้ขายจำต้องส่งมอบทรัพย์สินให้ตรงตามตัวอย่างในการขายตามคำพรรณนา ผู้ขายจำต้องส่งมอบทรัพย์สินให้ตรงตามคำพรรณนา
Verbatim from the Royal Gazette / Office of the Council of State
English translation
In a sale by sample, the seller is bound to deliver property or properties corresponding to the sample. In a sale by description, the seller is bound to deliver property corresponding to the description.
This English translation is provided for reference only and has not yet been firm-verified. Always rely on the Thai original.
Firm annotation
Section 503 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 (1981 to 1997)
Selected citing decisions
- Decision 7727/2540 (1997)
- Decision 2762/2524 (1981)
- Decision 7318/2537 (1994)
- Decision 3794/2537 (1994)
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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