Article 1696
Statutory text (Thai original)
ถ้าผู้ทำพินัยกรรมได้โอนไปโดยสมบูรณ์ซึ่งทรัพย์สินอันเป็นวัตถุแห่งข้อกำหนดพินัยกรรมใดด้วยความตั้งใจ ข้อกำหนดพินัยกรรมนั้นเป็นอันเพิกถอนไปวิธีเดียวกันนี้ให้ใช้บังคับ เมื่อผู้ทำพินัยกรรมได้ทำลายทรัพย์สินนั้นด้วยความตั้งใจ
Verbatim from the Royal Gazette / Office of the Council of State
English translation
A testamentary disposition is revoked if the testator has intentionally made a valid transfer of the property which is the subject of the will. The same rule applies if the testator has intentionally destroyed such property.
This English translation is provided for reference only and has not yet been firm-verified. Always rely on the Thai original.
Firm annotation
Section 1696 is part of Book 6 (Succession) 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 13 Supreme Court decisions (1973 to 2009)
Selected citing decisions
- Decision 5720/2541 (1998)
- Decision 4836/2540 (1997)
- Decision 4499/2540 (1997)
- Decision 9503/2539 (1996)
- Decision 3128/2538 (1995)
- Decision 3354/2535 (1992)
- Decision 1942/2523 (1980)
- Decision 1364/2516 (1973)
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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<blockquote cite="https://www.thailawonline.com/fr/thai-civil-code/section-1696/"><p>Une disposition testamentaire est révoquée si le testateur a intentionnellement effectué un transfert valable du bien faisant l'objet du testament. La même règle s'applique si le testateur a intentionnellement détruit ce bien.</p><footer>Civil and Commercial Code, s. 1696 (Thailand) — <a href="https://www.thailawonline.com/fr/thai-civil-code/section-1696/">ThaiLawOnline</a></footer></blockquote>
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