Section 683
Statutory text (Thai original)
อันค้ำประกันอย่างไม่มีจำกัดนั้นย่อมคุ้มถึงดอกเบี้ยและค่าสินไหมทดแทนซึ่งลูกหนี้ค้างชำระ ตลอดจนค่าภาระติดพันอันเป็นอุปกรณ์แห่งหนี้รายนั้นด้วย
Verbatim from the Royal Gazette / Office of the Council of State
English translation
An unlimited suretyship covers the interest and compensation owed by the debtor, as well as any charge accessory to the obligation.
ThaiLawOnline translation, written from the Thai original and verified
Firm annotation
Section 683 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. The English translation is ThaiLawOnline's own, written from the Thai original and verified against it. Always rely on the Thai original for legal proceedings.
Why this matters in practice
Lawyers: Where the guarantee is unlimited, the surety may be liable for substantially more than the principal sum — including all accrued interest and damages. Post-2014 amendments now require that maximum guaranteed amounts be specified for future/conditional debt guarantees, limiting the scope of open-ended guarantees in practice. Laypeople: An 'unlimited' guarantee means you may owe much more than the original loan amount if interest and penalties have accumulated.
Legislative history
Part of the original Civil and Commercial Code codification; no major subsequent amendment.
Supreme Court decisions interpreting this section
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Supreme Court Judgment No. 4863/2537 (1994)
An unlimited guarantee expressed to cover current and future indebtedness within a stated ceiling includes liabilities arising from subsequent increases to the facility.
The surety executed a guarantee for an overdraft facility with a savings book as collateral. When the guaranteed amount was increased, the surety was held liable for the increased amount because the guarantee was expressed to cover current and future indebtedness within the stated ceiling.
Curated decisions with case numbers verified against the Supreme Court database. English renderings are the firm's editorial translation for study.
Cited in 4 Supreme Court decisions (1957 to 2018)
Selected citing decisions
- Decision 4298/2561 (2018)
- Decision 7040/2540 (1997)
- Decision 810/2540 (1997)
- Decision 1805/2500 (1957)
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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