Section 53
Statutory text (Thai original)
บัญชีทรัพย์สินตามมาตรา ๕๐ และมาตรา ๕๒ ต้องมีพยานลงลายมือชื่อรับรองความถูกต้องอย่างน้อยสองคน พยานสองคนนั้นต้องเป็นคู่สมรสหรือญาติของผู้ไม่อยู่ซึ่งบรรลุนิติภาวะแล้ว แต่ถ้าไม่มีคู่สมรสหรือหาญาติไม่ได้ หรือคู่สมรสและญาติไม่ยอมเป็นพยาน จะให้ผู้อื่นซึ่งบรรลุนิติภาวะแล้วเป็นพยานก็ได้
Verbatim from the Royal Gazette / Office of the Council of State
English translation
The inventory under Section 50 and Section 52 must be made in the presence of, and signed by two witnesses. Such two witnesses must be a spouse or a relative being of age of the absent person. If neither spouse nor relatives is found, or the spouses and relative refuse to be witnesses, other persons being of age may act as witnesses.
This English translation is provided for reference only and has not yet been firm-verified. Always rely on the Thai original.
Firm annotation
Section 53 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 3 Supreme Court decisions (1994 to 2021)
Selected citing decisions
- Decision 5518/2564 (2021)
- Decision 4223/2564 (2021)
- Decision 4875/2537 (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.
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. 53 (Thailand) -
Academic citation
Civil and Commercial Code (Thailand), s. 53. ThaiLawOnline, https://www.thailawonline.com/thai-civil-code/section-53/ (accessed 8 August 2026). -
Thai citation
ป.พ.พ. มาตรา 53 -
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