Section 1558
Statutory text (Thai original)
การฟ้องคดีขอให้รับเด็กเป็นบุตรของผู้ตายที่ได้ฟ้องภายในกำหนดอายุความมรดก ถ้าศาลได้พิพากษาว่าเด็กเป็นบุตรชอบด้วยกฎหมายของผู้ตาย เด็กนั้นมีสิทธิรับมรดกในฐานะทายาทโดยธรรมในกรณีที่ได้มีการแบ่งมรดกไปแล้ว ให้นำบทบัญญัติแห่งประมวลกฎหมายนี้ว่าด้วยเรื่องลาภมิควรได้มาใช้บังคับโดยอนุโลม
Verbatim from the Royal Gazette / Office of the Council of State
English translation
As regards the action for legitimation of the deceased having been entered within the period of prescription for claim for inheritance, if the court adjudges the child to be legitimate he is entitled to inheritance as a statutory heir. In case where the estate has been divided the provisions of this Code concerning Undue Enrichment shall be applied mutatis mutandis.
This English translation is provided for reference only and has not yet been firm-verified. Always rely on the Thai original.
Firm annotation
Section 1558 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 (1981 to 2001)
Selected citing decisions
- Decision 1196/2538 (1995)
- Decision 5716/2533 (1990)
- Decision 2114/2524 (1981)
- Decision 8504/2544 (2001)
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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