1896de Book2 Chapter07 Title20
From Thai Codification Codes of 1925
- Based on the English Translation by: Wang, Chung Hui (1907). The German Civil Code, translated and annotated with historical introduction and appendices. London: Stevens and Sons. [available on Archive.org]
BOOK II. Law of Obligations.
Chapter VII. Particular Kinds of Obligations.
Title XX. Promise of Debt, Acknowledgment of Debt.
- For the validity of a contract whereby an act of performance is promised in such manner that the promise itself is to create the obligation (i.e., a promise of debt), a written statement of the promise is necessary unless some other form is prescribed.
- For the validity of a contract whereby the existence of an obligation is acknowledged (i.e., an acknowledgment of debt), a written statement of the declaration of acknowledgment is necessary. If some other form is prescribed for the creation of the obligation whose existence is acknowledged, the contract of acknowledgment shall be made in such other form.
- If a promise of debt or an acknowledgment of debt is issued in consequence of an agreed account, or by way of compromise, the written form prescribed in 780, 781 is not necessary.
