Book 3: Specific Contracts

Section 711

Statutory text (Thai original)

การที่จะตกลงกันไว้เสียแต่ก่อนเวลาหนี้ถึงกำหนดชำระเป็นข้อความอย่างใดอย่างหนึ่งว่า ถ้าไม่ชำระหนี้ ให้ผู้รับจำนองเข้าเป็นเจ้าของทรัพย์สินซึ่งจำนอง หรือว่าให้จัดการแก่ทรัพย์สินนั้นเป็นประการอื่นอย่างใด นอกจากตามบทบัญญัติทั้งหลายว่าด้วยการบังคับจำนองนั้นไซร้ ข้อตกลงเช่นนั้นท่านว่าไม่สมบูรณ์

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

English translation

Before the obligation is due, any agreement that the mortgagee shall, in case of non-performance, become the owner of the mortgaged property or dispose of it otherwise than in accordance with the provisions concerning Enforcement of Mortgage, shall be invalid.

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

Firm annotation

Section 711 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 6 Supreme Court decisions (1948 to 1999)

Selected citing decisions

  • Decision 1510/2542 (1999)
  • Decision 707/2506 (1963)
  • Decision 420/2492 (1949)
  • Decision 3249/2542 (1999)
  • Decision 768/2534 (1991)
  • Decision 1018/2491 (1948)

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. 711 (Thailand)
  • Academic citation Civil and Commercial Code (Thailand), s. 711. ThaiLawOnline, https://www.thailawonline.com/thai-civil-code/section-711/ (accessed 28 August 2026).
  • Thai citation ป.พ.พ. มาตรา 711
  • Permalink https://www.thailawonline.com/thai-civil-code/section-711/
  • Embed on your site <blockquote cite="https://www.thailawonline.com/thai-civil-code/section-711/"><p>Before the obligation is due, any agreement that the mortgagee shall, in case of non-performance, become the owner of the mortgaged property or dispose of it otherwise than in accordance with the provisions concerning Enforcement of Mortgage, shall be invalid.</p><footer>Civil and Commercial Code, s. 711 (Thailand): <a href="https://www.thailawonline.com/thai-civil-code/section-711/">ThaiLawOnline</a></footer></blockquote>

The Thai text is authoritative. The English is an unofficial translation by ThaiLawOnline, free to reuse with attribution.

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

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