Section 1487 — No seizure of a spouse's property during the marriage
Statutory text (Thai original)
ในระหว่างที่เป็นคู่สมรสกัน ฝ่ายใดจะยึดหรืออายัดทรัพย์สินของอีกฝ่ายหนึ่งไม่ได้ เว้นแต่เป็นการยึดหรืออายัดทรัพย์สินในคดีที่ฟ้องร้องเพื่อการปฏิบัติหน้าที่หรือรักษาสิทธิระหว่างคู่สมรสตามที่บัญญัติไว้โดยเฉพาะในประมวลกฎหมายนี้ หรือที่ประมวลกฎหมายนี้บัญญัติไว้โดยเฉพาะให้คู่สมรสฟ้องร้องกันเองได้ หรือเป็นการยึดหรืออายัดทรัพย์สินสำหรับค่าอุปการะเลี้ยงดูและค่าฤชาธรรมเนียมที่ยังมิได้ชำระตามคำพิพากษาของศาล
Verbatim from the Royal Gazette / Office of the Council of State
English translation
While they are spouses, neither may seize or attach the property of the other, except a seizure or attachment of property in an action brought to perform a duty or to preserve a right between spouses as specially provided in this Code, or which this Code specially provides that spouses may bring against each other, or a seizure or attachment of property for maintenance and costs not yet paid under a judgment of the court.
ThaiLawOnline translation, written from the Thai original and verified
Firm annotation
Section 1487 is part of Book 5 (Family) 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 4 Supreme Court decisions (1974 to 1997)
Selected citing decisions
- Decision 890/2517 (1974)
- Decision 4382/2540 (1997)
- Decision 293/2518 (1975)
- Decision 1266/2519 (1976)
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. These figures are computed by us and are not official court statistics.
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