Section 73
Statutory text (Thai original)
ถ้ามีตำแหน่งว่างลงในจำนวนผู้แทนของนิติบุคคล และมีเหตุอันควรเชื่อว่าการปล่อยตำแหน่งว่างไว้น่าจะเกิดความเสียหายขึ้นได้ เมื่อผู้มีส่วนได้เสียหรือพนักงานอัยการร้องขอศาลจะแต่งตั้งผู้แทนชั่วคราวขึ้นก็ได้
Verbatim from the Royal Gazette / Office of the Council of State
English translation
If a vacancy occurs among the representatives of juristic person, and there is reason to believe that damage might ensue from delay, the Court may, on the application of any interested person or of the Public Prosecutor, appoint a temporary representative.
This English translation is provided for reference only and has not yet been firm-verified. Always rely on the Thai original.
Firm annotation
Section 73 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 25 Supreme Court decisions (1947 to 2025)
Selected citing decisions
- Decision 1346/2568 (2025)
- Decision 620/2568 (2025)
- Decision 1346/2568 (2025)
- Decision 620/2568 (2025)
- Decision 7890/2568 (2025)
- Decision 7830/2560 (2017)
- Decision 8579/2553 (2010)
- Decision 2980/2550 (2007)
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 4 8
- Section 75 6
- Thai CPC s. 223/2 6
- Section 72 6
- Section 74 5
- Section 1151 3
Sections that appear in the same judgments as this one most often. The figure is the number of decisions.
Counted across the firm's corpus of 83,772 Supreme Court decisions, 1921 to 2026. These figures are computed by us and are not official court statistics.
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Civil and Commercial Code, s. 73 (Thailand) -
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