Section 148
Statutory text (Thai original)
ดอกผลของทรัพย์ ได้แก่ ดอกผลธรรมดาและดอกผลนิตินัยดอกผลธรรมดา หมายความว่า สิ่งที่เกิดขึ้นตามธรรมชาติของทรัพย์ ซึ่งได้มาจากตัวทรัพย์ โดยการมีหรือใช้ทรัพย์นั้นตามปกตินิยม และสามารถถือเอาได้เมื่อขาดจากทรัพย์นั้น ดอกผลนิตินัย หมายความว่า ทรัพย์หรือประโยชน์อย่างอื่นที่ได้มาเป็นครั้งคราวแก่เจ้าของทรัพย์จากผู้อื่นเพื่อการที่ได้ใช้ทรัพย์นั้น และสามารถคำนวณและถือเอาได้เป็นรายวันหรือตามระยะเวลาที่กำหนดไว้
Verbatim from the Royal Gazette / Office of the Council of State
English translation
By fruit of a thing is a natural fruit and legal fruit. Natural fruit denotes that which is a natural offspring of and is obtained from a thing in the normal possession or in the use thereof; and it is capable of acquisition at the time when it is severed from the thing. Legal fruit denotes a thing or other interest obtained periodically by the owner from another person for the use of the thing; it is calculated and may be acquired day by day or according to a period of time fixed.
This English translation is provided for reference only and has not yet been firm-verified. Always rely on the Thai original.
Firm annotation
Section 148 is part of Book 1 (General Principles) 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 29 Supreme Court decisions (1951 to 2016)
Selected citing decisions
- Decision 2731/2559 (2016)
- Decision 988/2559 (2016)
- Decision 10361/2557 (2014)
- Decision 4228/2555 (2012)
- Decision 1681/2552 (2009)
- Decision 1932/2550 (2007)
- Decision 1884/2550 (2007)
- Decision 463/2550 (2007)
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 379 14
- Thai CPC s. 223 bis 12
- Section 383 10
- Thai CPC s. 148 5
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Civil and Commercial Code, s. 148 (Thailand) -
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ป.พ.พ. มาตรา 148 -
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