Book 3: Specific Contracts

Section 652

Statutory text (Thai original)

ถ้าในสัญญาไม่มีกำหนดเวลาให้คืนทรัพย์สินซึ่งยืมไป ผู้ให้ยืมจะบอกกล่าวแก่ผู้ยืมให้คืนทรัพย์สินภายในเวลาอันควร ซึ่งกำหนดให้ในคำบอกกล่าวนั้นก็ได้

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

English translation

If no time for return of the property lent has been fixed, the lender may give notice to the borrower to return the property within a reasonable time to be fixed in the notice.

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

Firm annotation

Section 652 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 8 Supreme Court decisions (1960 to 2002)

Selected citing decisions

  • Decision 917/2539 (1996)
  • Decision 2103/2535 (1992)
  • Decision 2938/2538 (1995)
  • Decision 1795/2545 (2002)
  • Decision 1759/2545 (2002)
  • Decision 1324/2519 (1976)
  • Decision 831/2512 (1969)
  • Decision 1051/2503 (1960)

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

Related guides on ThaiLawOnline

Cite this section

  • Plain citation Civil and Commercial Code, s. 652 (Thailand)
  • Academic citation Civil and Commercial Code (Thailand), s. 652. ThaiLawOnline, https://www.thailawonline.com/thai-civil-code/section-652/ (accessed 8 August 2026).
  • Thai citation ป.พ.พ. มาตรา 652
  • Permalink https://www.thailawonline.com/thai-civil-code/section-652/
  • Embed on your site <blockquote cite="https://www.thailawonline.com/thai-civil-code/section-652/"><p>If no time for return of the property lent has been fixed, the lender may give notice to the borrower to return the property within a reasonable time to be fixed in the notice.</p><footer>Civil and Commercial Code, s. 652 (Thailand) — <a href="https://www.thailawonline.com/thai-civil-code/section-652/">ThaiLawOnline</a></footer></blockquote>

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

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