Section 566: Terminating a hire of no fixed period
Statutory text (Thai original)
ถ้ากำหนดเวลาเช่าไม่ปรากฏในความที่ตกลงกันหรือไม่พึงสันนิษฐานได้ไซร้ ท่านว่าคู่สัญญาฝ่ายใดจะบอกเลิกสัญญาเช่าในขณะเมื่อสุดระยะเวลาอันเป็นกำหนดชำระค่าเช่าก็ได้ทุกระยะ แต่ต้องบอกกล่าวแก่อีกฝ่ายหนึ่งให้รู้ตัวก่อนชั่วกำหนดเวลาชำระค่าเช่าระยะหนึ่งเป็นอย่างน้อย แต่ไม่จำเป็นต้องบอกกล่าวล่วงหน้ากว่าสองเดือน
Verbatim from the Royal Gazette / Office of the Council of State
English translation
If no period is agreed upon or presumed, either party may terminate the contract of hire at the end of each period for the payment of rent, provided that notice of at least one rent period is given, but no more than two months notice need be given.
This English translation is provided for reference only and has not yet been firm-verified. Always rely on the Thai original.
Firm annotation
Section 566 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 81 Supreme Court decisions (1946 to 2009)
Selected citing decisions
- Decision 1196/2552 (2009)
- Decision 6179/2551 (2008)
- Decision 5491/2550 (2007)
- Decision 5142/2549 (2006)
- Decision 4551/2544 (2001)
- Decision 3898/2542 (1999)
- Decision 93/2541 (1998)
- Decision 823/2538 (1995)
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 570 19
- Section 538 10
- Thai CPC s. 224 8
- Thai CPC s. 249 7
- Section 569 5
- Section 549 4
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