Section 601
Statutory text (Thai original)
ท่านห้ามมิให้ฟ้องผู้รับจ้างเมื่อพ้นปีหนึ่งนับแต่วันการชำรุดบกพร่องได้ปรากฏขึ้น
Verbatim from the Royal Gazette / Office of the Council of State
English translation
No action against the contractor can be entered later than one year after the defect appeared.
This English translation is provided for reference only and has not yet been firm-verified. Always rely on the Thai original.
Firm annotation
Section 601 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 36 Supreme Court decisions (1961 to 2023)
Selected citing decisions
- Decision 3612/2560 (2017)
- Decision 13619/2553 (2010)
- Decision 2526/2552 (2009)
- Decision 2486/2552 (2009)
- Decision 4308/2550 (2007)
- Decision 7172/2547 (2004)
- Decision 8001/2544 (2001)
- Decision 1469/2542 (1999)
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 600 15
- Section 164 15
- Section 193/30 14
- Section 598 4
- Thai CPC s. 142 3
- Thai CPC s. 247 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. 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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