Book 3: Specific Contracts

Section 580

Statutory text (Thai original)

ถ้าไม่มีกำหนดโดยสัญญาหรือจารีตประเพณีว่าจะพึงจ่ายสินจ้างเมื่อไร ท่านว่าพึงจ่ายเมื่องานได้ทำแล้วเสร็จ ถ้าการจ่ายสินจ้างนั้นได้กำหนดกันไว้เป็นระยะเวลา ก็ให้พึงจ่ายเมื่อสุดระยะเวลาเช่นนั้นทุกคราวไป

Verbatim from the Royal Gazette / Office of the Council of State

English translation

If no time for payment of remuneration is fixed by the contract or by custom, the remuneration is payable after the services have been rendered; if fixed by periods, the remuneration is payable at the end of each period.

This English translation is provided for reference only and has not yet been firm-verified. Always rely on the Thai original.

Firm annotation

Section 580 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 2 Supreme Court decisions (1986 to 2011)

Selected citing decisions

  • Decision 6861-6898/2554 (2011)
  • Decision 4729/2529 (1986)

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

Cite this section

  • Plain citation Civil and Commercial Code, s. 580 (Thailand)
  • Academic citation Civil and Commercial Code (Thailand), s. 580. ThaiLawOnline, https://www.thailawonline.com/thai-civil-code/section-580/ (accessed 8 August 2026).
  • Thai citation ป.พ.พ. มาตรา 580
  • Permalink https://www.thailawonline.com/thai-civil-code/section-580/
  • Embed on your site <blockquote cite="https://www.thailawonline.com/thai-civil-code/section-580/"><p>If no time for payment of remuneration is fixed by the contract or by custom, the remuneration is payable after the services have been rendered; if fixed by periods, the remuneration is payable at the end of each period.</p><footer>Civil and Commercial Code, s. 580 (Thailand) — <a href="https://www.thailawonline.com/thai-civil-code/section-580/">ThaiLawOnline</a></footer></blockquote>

The Thai text is authoritative. The English is an unofficial translation by ThaiLawOnline, free to reuse with attribution.

This is educational reference, not legal advice. Consult a qualified Thai lawyer before relying on any provision.

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