Section 987: Cheque, definition
Statutory text (Thai original)
อันว่าเช็คนั้น คือหนังสือตราสารซึ่งบุคคลคนหนึ่ง เรียกว่าผู้สั่งจ่าย สั่งธนาคารให้ใช้เงินจำนวนหนึ่งเมื่อทวงถามให้แก่บุคคลอีกคนหนึ่ง หรือให้ใช้ตามคำสั่งของบุคคลอีกคนหนึ่ง อันเรียกว่าผู้รับเงิน
Verbatim from the Royal Gazette / Office of the Council of State
English translation
A cheque is a written instrument by which one person, called the drawer, orders a bank to pay a sum of money on demand to another person, or to the order of another person, called the payee.
This English translation is provided for reference only and has not yet been firm-verified. Always rely on the Thai original.
Firm annotation
Section 987 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 19 Supreme Court decisions (1954 to 2005)
Selected citing decisions
- Decision 6658/2548 (2005)
- Decision 6305/2548 (2005)
- Decision 5766/2537 (1994)
- Decision 1558/2529 (1986)
- Decision 1845/2524 (1981)
- Decision 313/2521 (1978)
- Decision 1853/2511 (1968)
- Decision 1017/2507 (1964)
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 988 10
- Section 989 9
- Section 914 4
- Section 967 4
- Section 910 3
- Section 653 3
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Civil and Commercial Code, s. 987 (Thailand) -
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