Section 697
Statutory text (Thai original)
ถ้าเพราะการกระทำอย่างใดอย่างหนึ่งของเจ้าหนี้เอง เป็นเหตุให้ผู้ค้ำประกันไม่อาจเข้ารับช่วงได้ทั้งหมดหรือแต่บางส่วนในสิทธิก็ดี จำนองก็ดี จำนำก็ดี และบุริมสิทธิอันได้ให้ไว้แก่เจ้าหนี้แต่ก่อนหรือในขณะทำสัญญาค้ำประกันเพื่อชำระหนี้นั้น ท่านว่าผู้ค้ำประกันย่อมหลุดพ้นจากความรับผิดเพียงเท่าที่ตนต้องเสียหายเพราะการนั้น
Verbatim from the Royal Gazette / Office of the Council of State
English translation
Where, by an act of the creditor himself, the surety cannot be subrogated in whole or in part to the rights, mortgages, pledges and preferential rights given to the creditor before, or at the time of, the contract of suretyship, the surety is released from liability to the extent of the loss thereby suffered.
ThaiLawOnline translation, written from the Thai original and verified
Firm annotation
Section 697 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.
Cited in 7 Supreme Court decisions (1972 to 2008)
Selected citing decisions
- Decision 8370/2551 (2008)
- Decision 8328/2550 (2007)
- Decision 6088/2550 (2007)
- Decision 3531/2527 (1984)
- Decision 2718/2515 (1972)
- Decision 8154/2540 (1997)
- Decision 1091/2519 (1976)
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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