Book 1 — General Principles

Section 45

Statutory text (Thai original)

ภูมิลำเนาของคนไร้ความสามารถ ได้แก่ภูมิลำเนาของผู้อนุบาล

Verbatim from the Royal Gazette / Office of the Council of State

English translation

The domicile of an incompetent person is that of his guardian.

This English translation is provided for reference only and has not yet been firm-verified. Always rely on the Thai original.

Firm annotation

Section 45 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 16 Supreme Court decisions (1963 to 1996)

Selected citing decisions

  • Decision 1671/2539 (1996)
  • Decision 7397/2537 (1994)
  • Decision 2012/2536 (1993)
  • Decision 4626/2530 (1987)
  • Decision 500/2523 (1980)
  • Decision 1479/2522 (1979)
  • Decision 2024-2025/2519 (1976)
  • Decision 935/2537 (1994)

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

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.

Cite this section

  • Plain citation Civil and Commercial Code, s. 45 (Thailand)
  • Academic citation Civil and Commercial Code (Thailand), s. 45. ThaiLawOnline, https://www.thailawonline.com/thai-civil-code/section-45/ (accessed 8 August 2026).
  • Thai citation ป.พ.พ. มาตรา 45
  • Permalink https://www.thailawonline.com/thai-civil-code/section-45/
  • Embed on your site <blockquote cite="https://www.thailawonline.com/thai-civil-code/section-45/"><p>The domicile of an incompetent person is that of his guardian.</p><footer>Civil and Commercial Code, s. 45 (Thailand) — <a href="https://www.thailawonline.com/thai-civil-code/section-45/">ThaiLawOnline</a></footer></blockquote>

The Thai text is authoritative. The English is an unofficial translation by ThaiLawOnline, free to reuse with attribution.

This is educational reference, not legal advice. Consult a qualified Thai lawyer before relying on any provision.

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