Book 1 — General Principles

Section 57

Statutory text (Thai original)

ในคำสั่งตั้งผู้จัดการทรัพย์สิน ศาลจะกำหนดบำเหน็จให้แก่ผู้จัดการทรัพย์สินโดยจ่ายจากทรัพย์สินของผู้ไม่อยู่นั้นก็ได้ ถ้าศาลมิได้กำหนด ผู้จัดการทรัพย์สินจะร้องขอต่อศาลให้กำหนดบำเหน็จในภายหลังก็ได้ถ้าผู้จัดการทรัพย์สิน หรือผู้มีส่วนได้เสีย หรือพนักงานอัยการร้องขอ หรือเมื่อมีกรณีปรากฏแก่ศาลว่า พฤติการณ์เกี่ยวกับการจัดการทรัพย์สินได้เปลี่ยนแปลงไป ศาลจะสั่งกำหนด บำเหน็จ งด ลด เพิ่ม หรือกลับให้บำเหน็จแก่ผู้จัดการทรัพย์สินอีกก็ได้

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

English translation

The court may, in the order appointing the property manager, determine a remuneration to be paid to the manager out of the property of the absent person; in default of which the manager may afterwards applies to the court for determining such remuneration. The court may, on the application of the manager or of an interested person or the public prosecutor, or of its own motion when it appears that circumstances on the property management have changed, give an order effecting the determination, suspension, decrease or increase of the remuneration, or anew remuneration payment to be made to the manager.

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

Firm annotation

Section 57 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 4 Supreme Court decisions (1976 to 1999)

Selected citing decisions

  • Decision 475/2537 (1994)
  • Decision 283/2525 (1982)
  • Decision 1156/2519 (1976)
  • Decision 2073/2542 (1999)

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. These figures are computed by us and are not official court statistics.

Cite this section

  • Plain citation Civil and Commercial Code, s. 57 (Thailand)
  • Academic citation Civil and Commercial Code (Thailand), s. 57. ThaiLawOnline, https://www.thailawonline.com/thai-civil-code/section-57/ (accessed 8 August 2026).
  • Thai citation ป.พ.พ. มาตรา 57
  • Permalink https://www.thailawonline.com/thai-civil-code/section-57/
  • Embed on your site <blockquote cite="https://www.thailawonline.com/thai-civil-code/section-57/"><p>The court may, in the order appointing the property manager, determine a remuneration to be paid to the manager out of the property of the absent person; in default of which the manager may afterwards applies to the court for determining such remuneration. The court…</p><footer>Civil and Commercial Code, s. 57 (Thailand) — <a href="https://www.thailawonline.com/thai-civil-code/section-57/">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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