Section 47
Statutory text (Thai original)
ภูมิลำเนาของผู้ที่ถูกจำคุกตามคำพิพากษาถึงที่สุดของศาลหรือตามคำสั่งโดยชอบด้วยกฎหมาย ได้แก่เรือนจำหรือทัณฑสถานที่ถูกจำคุกอยู่ จนกว่าจะได้รับการปล่อยตัวส่วนที่ ๔สาบสูญ
Verbatim from the Royal Gazette / Office of the Council of State
English translation
The domicile of a convict by a final judgment of the court or by a lawful order is the prison or correctional institution where he is imprisoned until his release. PART V Disappearance
This English translation is provided for reference only and has not yet been firm-verified. Always rely on the Thai original.
Firm annotation
Section 47 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 18 Supreme Court decisions (1943 to 2024)
Selected citing decisions
- Decision 226/2567 (2024)
- Decision 830/2561 (2018)
- Decision 5312/2560 (2017)
- Decision 2983/2550 (2007)
- Decision 1965/2549 (2006)
- Decision 8103/2548 (2005)
- Decision 4813/2548 (2005)
- Decision 516/2548 (2005)
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
- Thai CrPC s. 22 13
- Thai Penal Code s. 83 5
- Thai Penal Code s. 92 4
- Thai Penal Code s. 335 4
- Thai Penal Code s. 33 3
- Thai Penal Code s. 340 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 83,772 Supreme Court decisions, 1921 to 2026. These figures are computed by us and are not official court statistics.
Cite this section
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Plain citation
Civil and Commercial Code, s. 47 (Thailand) -
Academic citation
Civil and Commercial Code (Thailand), s. 47. ThaiLawOnline, https://www.thailawonline.com/thai-civil-code/section-47/ (accessed 8 August 2026). -
Thai citation
ป.พ.พ. มาตรา 47 -
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