1919th Authentication
DRAFT: CIVIL AND COMMERCIAL CODE FOR KINGDOM OF SIAM. (1919)
Alternative Method to Authenticate the Copy of the Draft 1919
Introductory Remarks.
As explained on the "1919th Main Page", it is not possible to directly authenticate our copy of the Draft 1919 due to lack of corresponding documents in the "Archives of the History of Thai Codification". Nevertheless, there is still another possibility to indirectly authenticate it; namely utilizing the diverse handwritten alterations and corrections to the English text of the copy — most of them are handwritten, several ones are written on a typewriter. If we could identify any exactly corresponding descriptions of such alterations and corrections in any documents in the "Archives of the History of Thai Codification", then such documents could be evaluated as indirect evidence for the authentication of the copy.
Just such documents could be found in the Archive titled as "DRAFT CODE ON OBLIGATIONS, VI" (Vol.35, ID=163427). It contains a following set of documents:
- Title: "ALTERATION TO THE DRAFT OF OBLIGATIONS 1919 BEFORE PROMULGATION, First Part: GENERAL (Sections 1 to 387)"
- Date: 18th and 19th October 1921.
- Items: 73 entries.
- Pages: 35/175 – 202.
We can find exactly corresponding alterations and corrections in our copy of the Draft 1919 for most of these entries. 6 entries of them were not written to our copy. This circumstance suggests that our copy of the Draft 1919 show its stand shortly before the submission of the just named report "ALTERATION TO THE DRAFT OF OBLIGATIONS 1919 ..." on 19th October 1921.
Contents of the Report of 19th October 1921.
Attached Letter:
Mr. R. Guyon to H. E. Chao Phya Abhai Raja, Minister of Justice, President of the Commission of Codification:
Bangkok 19 th. Octoler 1921.
Your Excellency,
I beg to submit to you the Report of the alterations suggested by both the Committee of Redaction and the Committee of Translation to the Draft Code of Obligations 1919 before the promulgation of the same.
The present Report concerns the first Part of the Code (sections 1 to 387) which contains any kind of general provisions of civil law, and is now translated into Siamese and ready to be promulgated and published.
Another Report will follow further to contain the alterations in the second Part of the Code (sections 388 to 1463) when ready for translation and promulgation.
I remain, your most faithful servant.
