Section 70: Representation of juristic person
Statutory text (Thai original)
นิติบุคคลต้องมีผู้แทนคนหนึ่งหรือหลายคน ทั้งนี้ ตามที่กฎหมาย ข้อบังคับ หรือตราสารจัดตั้งจะได้กำหนดไว้ความประสงค์ของนิติบุคคลย่อมแสดงออกโดยผู้แทนของนิติบุคคล
Verbatim from the Royal Gazette / Office of the Council of State
English translation
A juristic person must have one or several representatives as prescribed by the law, regulations or its constitutive act. The will of a juristic person is expressed through its representatives.
This English translation is provided for reference only and has not yet been firm-verified. Always rely on the Thai original.
Firm annotation
Section 70 is part of Book 1 (General Principles) 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 adapted from the FAO/UN FAOLEX repository and corrected in house against the Thai. Always rely on the Thai original for legal proceedings.
Cited in 38 Supreme Court decisions (1954 to 2024)
Selected citing decisions
- Decision 1235/2567 (2024)
- Decision 1730/2565 (2022)
- Decision 123/2565 (2022)
- Decision 5119/2561 (2018)
- Decision 7811/2560 (2017)
- Decision 4603/2560 (2017)
- Decision 21764/2556 (2013)
- Decision 17827/2556 (2013)
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
- Thai Penal Code s. 83 7
- Section 224 5
- Thai CPC s. 142 5
- Section 75 5
- Thai Penal Code s. 29 4
- Section 1167 3
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