Section 553
Statutory text (Thai original)
ผู้เช่าจำต้องสงวนทรัพย์สินที่เช่านั้นเสมอกับที่วิญญูชนจะพึงสงวนทรัพย์สินของตนเอง และต้องบำรุงรักษาทั้งทำการซ่อมแซมเล็กน้อยด้วย
Verbatim from the Royal Gazette / Office of the Council of State
English translation
The hirer is bound to take as much care of the property hired as a person of ordinary prudence would take of his own property, and to do ordinary maintenance and petty repairs.
This English translation is provided for reference only and has not yet been firm-verified. Always rely on the Thai original.
Firm annotation
Section 553 is part of Book 3 (Specific Contracts) 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 8 Supreme Court decisions (1950 to 2006)
Selected citing decisions
- Decision 989/2549 (2006)
- Decision 1471/2548 (2005)
- Decision 1725/2540 (1997)
- Decision 3496/2535 (1992)
- Decision 1735/2517 (1974)
- Decision 1631/2516 (1973)
- Decision 646/2493 (1950)
- Decision 4809/2548 (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.
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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