Section 1612
Statutory text (Thai original)
การสละมรดกนั้น ต้องแสดงเจตนาชัดแจ้งเป็นหนังสือมอบไว้แก่พนักงานเจ้าหน้าที่ หรือทำเป็นสัญญาประนีประนอมยอมความ
Verbatim from the Royal Gazette / Office of the Council of State
English translation
Renunciation of an inheritance or refusal of a legacy shall be made by an express declaration of intention in writing deposited with the competent official, or by a contract of compromise.
This English translation is provided for reference only and has not yet been firm-verified. Always rely on the Thai original.
Firm annotation
Section 1612 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 41 Supreme Court decisions (1949 to 2025)
Selected citing decisions
- Decision 4273/2568 (2025) Estate Distribution Among Heirs Requires Either Sectional Occupation or Written Agreement: Section 1750
- Decision 15721/2558 (2015)
- Decision 7068/2557 (2014)
- Decision 4921/2552 (2009)
- Decision 5478/2550 (2007)
- Decision 1692/2548 (2005)
- Decision 9504/2544 (2001)
- Decision 3555/2542 (1999)
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 850 17
- Section 1750 13
- Section 1613 11
- Section 852 7
- Section 1754 4
- Section 1599 3
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. How we count these, and what we measured
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