Section 744 — How a mortgage is extinguished
Statutory text (Thai original)
อันจำนองย่อมระงับสิ้นไป (๑) เมื่อหนี้ที่ประกันระงับสิ้นไปด้วยเหตุประการอื่นใดมิใช่เหตุอายุความ (๒) เมื่อปลดจำนองให้แก่ผู้จำนองด้วยหนังสือเป็นสำคัญ (๓) เมื่อผู้จำนองหลุดพ้น (๔) เมื่อถอนจำนอง (๕) เมื่อขายทอดตลาดทรัพย์สินซึ่งจำนองตามคำสั่งศาลอันเนื่องมาแต่การบังคับจำนองหรือถอนจำนอง หรือเมื่อมีการขายทอดตลาดทรัพย์สินตามมาตรา ๗๒๙/๑ (๖) เมื่อเอาทรัพย์สินซึ่งจำนองนั้นหลุด
Verbatim from the Royal Gazette / Office of the Council of State
English translation
A mortgage is extinguished:
(1) when the obligation secured is extinguished otherwise than by prescription;
(2) when the mortgage is released to the mortgagor in writing;
(3) when the mortgagor is discharged;
(4) when the mortgage is withdrawn;
(5) when the mortgaged property is sold by public auction by order of the court as a result of enforcement of the mortgage or of withdrawal of the mortgage, or when the property is sold by public auction under Section 729/1;
(6) when the mortgaged property is foreclosed.
ThaiLawOnline translation, written from the Thai original and verified
Firm annotation
Section 744 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 54 Supreme Court decisions (1948 to 2025)
Selected citing decisions
- Decision 7903/2568 (2025)
- Decision 1746/2564 (2021)
- Decision 5508/2562 (2019)
- Decision 5654/2559 (2016)
- Decision 2737/2559 (2016)
- Decision 14118/2558 (2015)
- Decision 10669/2558 (2015)
- Decision 13104/2556 (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
- Section 702 7
- Thai CPC s. 289 7
- Section 745 5
- Thai CPC s. 271 4
- Section 193/27 4
- Thai CPC s. 223/2 4
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