Section 72
Statutory text (Thai original)
การเปลี่ยนตัวผู้แทนของนิติบุคคล หรือการจำกัดหรือแก้ไข เปลี่ยนแปลงอำนาจของผู้แทนของนิติบุคคล ให้มีผลต่อเมื่อได้ปฏิบัติตามกฎหมาย ข้อบังคับหรือตราสารจัดตั้งแล้ว แต่จะยกขึ้นเป็นข้อต่อสู้บุคคลภายนอกผู้กระทำการโดยสุจริตมิได้
Verbatim from the Royal Gazette / Office of the Council of State
English translation
The change of representatives of juristic person or of any restriction, or modification of the power of representatives shall be effective after having complied with the law, regulations or its constitutive act, but cannot be set up against third person acting in good faith.
This English translation is provided for reference only and has not yet been firm-verified. Always rely on the Thai original.
Firm annotation
Section 72 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 from the FAO/UN FAOLEX repository. Always rely on the Thai original for legal proceedings.
Cited in 29 Supreme Court decisions (1947 to 2003)
Selected citing decisions
- Decision 4638/2546 (2003)
- Decision 6354/2540 (1997)
- Decision ๗๖๗๙/๒๕๔๐ (1997)
- Decision 2750/2537 (1994)
- Decision 1733/2535 (1992)
- Decision 1769/2531 (1988)
- Decision 1932/2526 (1983)
- Decision 2954/2524 (1981)
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
- Section 73 6
- Section 65 3
- Section 66 3
- Section 75 3
- Section 74 3
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