Section 1312
Statutory text (Thai original)
บุคคลใดสร้างโรงเรือนรุกล้ำเข้าไปในที่ดินของผู้อื่นโดยสุจริตไซร้ ท่านว่าบุคคลนั้นเป็นเจ้าของโรงเรือนที่สร้างขึ้น แต่ต้องเสียเงินให้แก่เจ้าของที่ดินเป็นค่าใช้ที่ดินนั้น และจดทะเบียนสิทธิเป็นภาระจำยอม ต่อภายหลังถ้าโรงเรือนนั้นสลายไปทั้งหมด เจ้าของที่ดินจะเรียกให้เพิกถอนการจดทะเบียนเสียก็ได้ถ้าบุคคลผู้สร้างโรงเรือนนั้นกระทำการโดยไม่สุจริต ท่านว่าเจ้าของที่ดินจะเรียกให้ผู้สร้างรื้อถอนไป และทำที่ดินให้เป็นตามเดิมโดยผู้สร้างเป็นผู้ออกค่าใช้จ่ายก็ได้
Verbatim from the Royal Gazette / Office of the Council of State
English translation
If a person has, in good faith, constructed a building encroaching on another person's land, the constructor is the owner of the building, subject to his paying the owner of the land for the use of such land and having his rights on the encroached land registered as servitude. The owner of the land may demand cancellation of the registration if subsequently the building is totally destroyed. If the constructor of the building is in bad faith, the owner of the land may require that it be removed by the constructor and the land put in its former condition, at the expense of the latter.
This English translation is provided for reference only and has not yet been firm-verified. Always rely on the Thai original.
Firm annotation
Section 1312 is part of Book 4 (Property) 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 82 Supreme Court decisions (1953 to 2023)
Selected citing decisions
- Decision 4954/2566 (2023)
- Decision 1090/2558 (2015)
- Decision 1376/2554 (2011)
- Decision 9785/2553 (2010)
- Decision 9764/2552 (2009)
- Decision 4799/2552 (2009)
- Decision 796/2552 (2009)
- Decision 7778/2551 (2008)
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 4 22
- Section 1310 13
- Section 1382 7
- Thai CPC s. 142 6
- Section 1314 6
- Thai CPC s. 249 4
Sections that appear in the same judgments as this one most often. The figure is the number of decisions.
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.
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