Article 1693: Revocation of will
Statutory text (Thai original)
ผู้ทำพินัยกรรมจะเพิกถอนพินัยกรรมของตนเสียทั้งหมด หรือแต่บางส่วนในเวลาใดก็ได้
Verbatim from the Royal Gazette / Office of the Council of State
English translation
A testator may at any time revoke his will wholly or partly.
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Firm annotation
Section 1693 makes revocation easy in theory but creates conflicts in practice. Common scenarios: testator makes a §1657 holographic will revoking an earlier §1656 will, then tears up the holographic but keeps the §1656, what's revoked? Default rule: written revocation explicit; physical destruction with revocatory intent is total; later wholly inconsistent will is partial. Always recommend a clean re-execution rather than amendments, modern wills typically include a clause expressly revoking all prior testamentary instruments.
Cited in 4 Supreme Court decisions (1965 to 2020)
Selected citing decisions
- Decision 1243/2563 (2020)
- Decision 6981/2545 (2002)
- Decision 1157/2511 (1968)
- Decision 838/2508 (1965)
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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Plain citation
Civil and Commercial Code, s. 1693 (Thailand) -
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Civil and Commercial Code (Thailand), s. 1693. ThaiLawOnline, https://www.thailawonline.com/fr/thai-civil-code/section-1693/ (accessed 21 août 2026). -
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ป.พ.พ. มาตรา 1693 -
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