Section 879
Statutory text (Thai original)
ผู้รับประกันภัยไม่ต้องรับผิดในเมื่อความวินาศภัยหรือเหตุอื่นซึ่งได้ระบุไว้ในสัญญานั้นได้เกิดขึ้นเพราะความทุจริต หรือความประมาทเลินเล่ออย่างร้ายแรงของผู้เอาประกันภัยหรือผู้รับประโยชน์ผู้รับประกันภัยไม่ต้องรับผิดในความวินาศภัยอันเป็นผลโดยตรงมาแต่ความไม่สมประกอบในเนื้อแห่งวัตถุที่เอาประกันภัย เว้นแต่จะได้ตกลงกันเป็นอย่างอื่น
Verbatim from the Royal Gazette / Office of the Council of State
English translation
The insurer is not liable where the loss, or the other event specified in the contract, has been caused by the dishonesty or gross negligence of the insured or of the beneficiary.
The insurer is not liable for a loss which is the direct consequence of an inherent defect in the subject matter insured, unless otherwise agreed.
ThaiLawOnline translation, written from the Thai original and verified
Firm annotation
Section 879 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 16 Supreme Court decisions (1978 to 2024)
Selected citing decisions
- Decision 282/2567 (2024)
- Decision 13071/2558 (2015)
- Decision 7362/2557 (2014)
- Decision 1059/2543 (2000)
- Decision 6809/2539 (1996)
- Decision 5925/2538 (1995)
- Decision 4830/2537 (1994)
- Decision 753/2537 (1994)
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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