Section 811
Statutory text (Thai original)
ถ้าตัวแทนเอาเงินซึ่งควรจะได้ส่งแก่ตัวการหรือซึ่งควรจะใช้ในกิจของตัวการนั้นไปใช้สอยเป็นประโยชน์ตนเสีย ท่านว่าตัวแทนต้องเสียดอกเบี้ยในเงินนั้นนับแต่วันที่ได้เอาไปใช้
Verbatim from the Royal Gazette / Office of the Council of State
English translation
If the agent has used for his own benefit money which ought to have handed over to the principal or to have used for the principal, he must pay interest thereon from the day when he used it for his own benefit.
This English translation is provided for reference only and has not yet been firm-verified. Always rely on the Thai original.
Firm annotation
Section 811 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 7 Supreme Court decisions (1973 to 2022)
Selected citing decisions
- Decision 6594/2537 (1994)
- Decision 2986/2537 (1994)
- Decision 7488/2541 (1998)
- Decision 755/2565 (2022)
- Decision 4116/2550 (2007)
- Decision 2672/2516 (1973)
- Decision 12093/2557 (2014)
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 1720 4
- Section 809 4
- Section 810 4
- Section 812 4
- Section 819 3
- Section 823 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 83,652 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.
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