Section 853
Statutory text (Thai original)
อันการพนันหรือขันต่อนั้น ท่านว่าหาก่อให้เกิดหนี้ไม่ สิ่งที่ได้ให้กันไปในการพนันหรือขันต่อก็จะทวงคืนไม่ได้ เพราะเหตุหามูลหนี้อย่างหนึ่งอย่างใดมิได้ข้อบัญญัติที่กล่าวนี้ ท่านให้ใช้ตลอดถึงข้อตกลงเป็นมูลหนี้อย่างหนึ่งอย่างใดอันฝ่ายข้างเสียพนันขันต่อหากทำให้แก่อีกฝ่ายหนึ่งเพื่อจะใช้หนี้เงินพนันหรือขันต่อนั้นด้วย
Verbatim from the Royal Gazette / Office of the Council of State
English translation
No obligation is created by gambling or betting. What has been given by reason of the gambling or betting may not be demanded back on the ground that no obligation existed. These provisions apply also to an agreement whereby the losing party, for the purpose of satisfying a gambling debt or a bet, incurs an obligation towards the other party.
This English translation is provided for reference only and has not yet been firm-verified. Always rely on the Thai original.
Firm annotation
Section 853 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 15 Supreme Court decisions (1948 to 2022)
Selected citing decisions
- Decision 3210/2565 (2022)
- Decision 1791/2550 (2007)
- Decision 5229/2544 (2001)
- Decision 1802/2529 (1986)
- Decision 2523/2527 (1984)
- Decision 912/2521 (1978)
- Decision 832/2512 (1969)
- Decision 595/2491 (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
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