Updates to the Thai Law Library, Week by Week

Reviewed by Wichuda Atthamethakon, LL.M., Thai Bar Licence 3149/2556, for ThaiLawOnline, a Thai law firm acting for foreigners since 2006.

Last updated on 9 November 2026

This page lists, week by week, what we have added to the Thai law library or revised in it: annotated statute sections, revised translations and Supreme Court decision pages. Weeks start on Monday and the newest week comes first.

The same records feed the Thai Supreme Court decisions dataset, a CSV file you can download and reuse under a CC BY 4.0 licence.

Week of 2 November 2026

Sections annotated (80)

Each of these sections now carries commentary on how the courts apply it, the leading Supreme Court decisions, answers to common questions and a French translation.

Civil and Commercial Code

Penal Code

Civil Procedure Code

Land Code

Translations revised

The English translations of 2,500 sections were checked against the Thai text and 863 of them corrected: 587 in the Civil and Commercial Code, 35 in the Penal Code, 111 in the Civil Procedure Code and 130 in the Criminal Procedure Code.

Supreme Court decisions added (323)

Family law

Decision 3740/2525: A registrar cannot refuse a marriage because the foreign partner lacks immigration papers
Decision 580/2527: Only the statutory conditions of marriage allow a registrar to refuse registration
Decision 269/2531: An unregistered divorce leaves the spouses married and the property agreement unenforceable
Decision 4152/2532: A registrar waiting for an embassy certificate of single status has not refused
Decision 5887/2533: A divorce by consent between foreigners is valid if both national laws allow it
Decision 595/2534: A consent divorce signed at the district office and registered is complete
Decision 3666/2535: A police-station divorce memo with property terms is enforceable between spouses
Decision 1820/2537: A spouse can sue to compel registration of a divorce agreed in writing
Decision 6553/2537: A divorce of a registered marriage needs registration, so the wife can claim compensation
Decision 592/2538: A divorce agreement witnessed by only one person does not meet the legal form
Decision 592/2540: A wrist-tying ceremony is not a legal engagement and its payments are not recoverable
Decision 6035/2541: A customary wedding of a girl under fifteen is not a valid marriage
Decision 3484/2542: A note placing a child with relatives does not waive the mother’s parental power
Decision 4714/2542: Severance and fund payments received after a spouse’s death are not marital property
Decision 3780/2543: An unmarried mother alone holds parental power and may reclaim her child
Decision 6484/2545: Court permission to marry is needed only for parties under the legal age
Decision 448/2546: Courts may change a divorce parental power agreement when circumstances change
Decision 6981/2547: A father of a child born outside marriage has no parental power without legitimation
Decision 2960/2548: A divorce agreement giving the father sole parental power returns it to the mother on his death
Decision 6471/2548: A divorce court must decide parental power and child support even if no one asks
Decision 8144/2548: Money in a joint bank account is presumed marital, so each spouse can claim half
Decision 8954/2549: A customary wedding with no intent to register is not a legal engagement
Decision 8738/2550: The time limit to revoke a spouse’s gift must be pleaded or the court cannot apply it
Decision 10220/2551: Legitimation by judgment took effect only when final, so benefits claims failed then
Decision 2497/2552: A note added after marriage registration is not a prenup and can be avoided
Decision 4959/2552: A spouse can sue for maintenance alone without seeking divorce
Decision 5689/2552: After a spouse dies, a claim over marital land is an inheritance claim with a one-year limit
Decision 8523/2552: Islamic family law governs Muslim marriages in the four southern provinces
Decision 15984/2553: Court minutes recording an agreement to divorce are not a written divorce agreement
Decision 342/2555: A marriage registered only to lower a sentence is not a real marriage
Decision 566/2556: Spouses can agree orally to divide marital property differently from the equal split
Decision 2668/2556: A Thai court may give one parent sole parental power after a foreign divorce silent on custody
Decision 3602/2556: A third party cannot challenge a judgment declaring a child legitimate
Decision 6337/2556: An unregistered consent divorce leaves a cheque for the property share unenforceable
Decision 8040/2556: When a spouse dies mid-case, the divorce claim lapses and compensation falls away
Decision 19376/2556: A divorce suit ends when a spouse dies, and property is divided as at death
Decision 6499/2557: Spousal maintenance lasts until the marriage ends, not until the wife remarries
Decision 8624/2557: Land rights acquired through a state scheme during marriage are shared equally
Decision 14040/2557: Property bought in the Thai spouse’s name during marriage is still marital property
Decision 15200/2557: Court-ordered child support runs until majority, not to a fixed age of 20
Decision 2857/2558: On a spouse’s death, marital property is first split in half before the estate is shared
Decision 4239/2558: Life insurance paid on a spouse’s death is estate property, not marital property
Decision 4408/2558: A void second marriage creates no property rights for the second partner
Decision 4780/2558: Only spouses, parents and children can claim loss of support after a death
Decision 5535/2558: The court may fix parental power and child support in divorce without evidence
Decision 7074/2558: A father must support and educate children born by assisted reproduction until majority
Decision 10769/2558: The court may split parental power between parents even when no divorce is granted
Decision 10770/2558: No divorce living allowance where spouses had separated voluntarily for years
Decision 12502/2558: A father who legitimates his child shares parental power and residence follows best interests
Decision 13964/2558: A foreign husband’s pre-marriage money stays his in land, but buildings are shared
Decision 15721/2558: Land returned after a spouse’s death is neither marital property nor part of the estate
Decision 4345/2559: A divorce compromise approved by the court cannot later be avoided as a spousal contract
Decision 5660/2559: A man cannot petition to be declared the legitimate father of his adult child
Decision 7072/2559: Fault alone does not earn a living allowance, the spouse must also become poorer
Decision 8056/2559: A parent who gave up parental power in a divorce cannot represent the child in court
Decision 8455/2559: Marital property cannot be divided while the marriage subsists
Decision 8471/2559: A first suit that is dismissed without prejudice preserves the time to refile
Decision 8596/2559: A court can order joint parental power and weigh the wishes of an older child
Decision 8799-8801/2559: Property bought during a bigamous union remains marital property of the lawful marriage
Decision 8803/2559: Gifts before the wedding stay separate, but unproven deposits are marital property
Decision 10289/2559: Both parents must support their children according to each parent’s own income
Decision 517/2560: A police report signed by both spouses and two officers can be a divorce agreement
Decision 6924/2560: A second marriage while a spouse is still married is void even if the other party was deceived
Decision 7071/2560: Transferred property that earns no income does not remove a wife’s maintenance claim
Decision 7789/2560: A sale of marital land by one spouse without consent can be revoked
Decision 156/2561: A hidden sale disguised as a gift to a good-faith buyer cannot be revoked by the spouse
Decision 272/2561: A wife without income can claim spousal maintenance of 20,000 baht a month
Decision 1179/2561: Land bought with a foreigner’s money in a void marriage must be disposed of under the Land Code
Decision 2199/2561: A surrogacy father may be declared the legal father with sole parental power
Decision 3607/2561: A remarriage is void when the earlier divorce judgment is set aside on retrial
Decision 218/2562: A foreign couple’s marriage abroad can be void in Thailand if one spouse was still married
Decision 2124/2562: A child’s claim for past support is not time barred as arrears
Decision 3857/2562: A spouse can avoid a joint registration of property bought with a gift from their parent
Decision 3927/2562: On the mother’s death parental power passes to the father and support claims end
Decision 2580/2563: Only a registered marriage makes someone a lawful spouse under the Penal Code
Decision 2887/2563: A same-sex marriage registered abroad by two Thai women gave no spousal exemption
Decision 1028/2564: A spouse’s death ends the marriage, and the land is halved between widow and estate
Decision 3193/2564: A spouse can sue to revoke a sale of marital land without joining the other’s heirs
Decision 5980/2564: A life insurance policy paid for from marital income is shared property on divorce
Decision 512/2565: Revoking a spouse’s gift of land also returns the land to the spouses
Decision 755/2565: Gifts from parents without a marital designation are the receiver’s separate property
Decision 1478/2565: A gift of land between spouses is the receiving spouse’s separate property
Decision 3029/2566: For a court divorce, marital property stops accruing on the date the suit is filed
Decision 4044-4046/2566: Land registered to children without the husband’s consent can remain marital property
Decision 4837/2567: A court will not apply a time limit the defendants did not plead
Decision 5054/2568: Registering spouses’ shares separately turns marital property into separate shares
Decision 1694/2569: An agreement to support children through university is enforceable but can be varied
Decision 2984/2569: Heirs can sue to declare a bigamous marriage void after the spouse’s death

Property law

Decision 305/2489: A habitation right and usufruct left by will defeat the administrator’s lease
Decision 1320/2498: An unregistered right of habitation can be ended by the owner
Decision 482/2506: Permission to build on land is a licence, not a right of habitation
Decision 344/2511: A foreigner cannot use the courts to move nominee land to a Thai child
Decision 1810/2511: A void nominee arrangement can leave the foreign buyer with no money claim
Decision 2783/2516: A registered usufruct does not stop the owner selling, but binds the buyer
Decision 2428/2518: A usufructuary may sue for eviction without juvenile court permission
Decision 62/2524: A written nominee acknowledgment is void and gives the foreigner nothing
Decision 1492/2528: A court compromise handing land to Thai owners can be a valid section 94 disposal
Decision 3019/2528: A seller who keeps a registered life usufruct can sue tenants for eviction
Decision 4515-4516/2533: An alien can acquire a shophouse by adverse possession even without a valid sale
Decision 5570/2533: Unregistered adverse possession cannot defeat a good faith mortgagee who registered
Decision 6136/2537: A buyer from a nominee acquires no better right than the nominee had
Decision 128/2538: Land bought by a Thai spouse is not caught by the foreign ownership bar
Decision 301/2538: Later naturalisation does not cure land bought while the buyer was a foreigner
Decision 1038/2538: A nominee cannot sell a foreigner’s land on her own initiative
Decision 5825/2539: A foreign parent’s nominee land is part of the estate and children can claim it
Decision 7200/2540: A Thai will leaving land to a foreigner is valid though the foreigner may sell
Decision 2297/2541: A registered lease granted by a usufructuary survives the usufructuary’s death
Decision 667/2542: A will can create a superficies that the administrator must register
Decision 4580/2542: A foreign carrier can be sued where its local agent in Thailand is based
Decision 7341/2542: A usufruct over land covers the buildings on it and lets the holder evict a tenant
Decision 4813/2548: Being on bail does not make a prison the petitioner’s domicile for filing
Decision 2058/2549: A developer can sell part of an estate road despite the buyers’ statutory servitude
Decision 8637/2550: Adverse possession cannot apply to land the claimant was already entitled to hold
Decision 178/2551: A foreign defendant with no assets in Thailand can have debts owed to it frozen
Decision 339/2551: A right of habitation ends when the building it covers is demolished
Decision 5336/2551: A claimant who does nothing within fifteen days can be struck out without a hearing
Decision 6458/2551: A house you built yourself on another’s land gives no right of habitation
Decision 15018/2551: Small claims default rules displace the ordinary default procedure in section 198
Decision 307/2552: Only the dominant landowner can enforce a servitude and permissive use is not adverse
Decision 7500/2552: A foreigner cannot use adverse possession to avoid condominium ownership conditions
Decision 417/2553: Use of a path by the neighbour’s permission creates no servitude however long it lasts
Decision 10330-10331/2553: Missing the fifteen day deadline does not automatically strike out a counterclaim
Decision 5016/2555: An alien’s possession of land is not void, but the court would not declare his estate owner
Decision 6245-6246/2555: A lawyer’s misunderstanding of a deadline is not an excuse for default
Decision 15033/2555: While a usufruct lasts, only the usufructuaries can sue to evict a tenant
Decision 1490/2558: A foreign spouse’s half of marital land on divorce stays subject to section 86
Decision 3532/2558: A court may hear the other side before deciding an ex parte protection request
Decision 4061/2558: Without a registered superficies a building goes with the land on seizure
Decision 10840/2558: A specialised court must follow its own default rules before striking out a case
Decision 14002/2558: Section 254 protection is for before judgment, not the execution stage
Decision 1475/2559: The general venue rule applies unless the claim depends on enforcing a judgment
Decision 3883-3884/2559: A lessee shut out by the owner can get urgent court protection despite arbitration
Decision 6458/2559: The defendant’s domicile remains a safe venue even in a dispute from another court
Decision 5449/2560: A foreigner who funds a nominee purchase may be unable to recover the money
Decision 6412/2560: A developer cannot avoid a refund by calling its own sale to a foreigner illegal
Decision 7649/2560: Courts freeze only the part of disputed proceeds that the evidence supports
Decision 9882/2560: Long use of a neighbour’s soi gives a servitude for passage but not for parking or loading
Decision 527/2561: A defendant’s business address can be a second domicile for choosing the court
Decision 6006/2561: Building on land burdened by a right of way is not criminal trespass on the dominant land
Decision 8195/2561: Heirs of a foreign landowner inherit the sale proceeds, not the land
Decision 819/2562: An estate road owner may transfer it to the city without reducing the buyers’ servitude
Decision 1479/2562: A settled ruling not to strike out a case cannot be reopened by the defendants
Decision 5778/2562: A foreigner can evict an occupier and claim damages before selling the land
Decision 1480/2563: Heirs’ unregistered inheritance rights cannot defeat a good faith registered transferee
Decision 581/2565: A bank that took a mortgage in good faith keeps it though the heir was excluded
Decision 1060/2565: A court-approved settlement share stays incomplete as a real right until registered
Decision 2295/2565: A dishonest sale by an estate administrator gives the buyer no better right
Decision 2674/2565: A court cannot register a transfer for creditors without hearing the debtor
Decision 2811/2565: A claimed nominee cannot also claim adverse possession of the same condominium unit
Decision 3412/2565: An insurance claim can be filed where the policy was made or the accident happened
Decision 3857/2565: A foreigner who paid for land in a Thai partner’s name has standing to sue
Decision 1467/2566: Execution of a land judgment follows the boundaries actually possessed
Decision 2416/2566: A lender must check for unpaid buyers before taking a mortgage in good faith
Decision 5163/2566: An agreed partition plan marking an access road creates a servitude by agreement
Decision 244/2567: A replacement title deed unlawfully issued gives the buyer no ownership
Decision 1589/2567: Possession during a lawsuit over the land is not peaceful for adverse possession
Decision 1824/2567: For distance contracts either party’s location can be where the claim arose
Decision 2128/2567: An irregular partition does not let one heir evict the other co-heirs
Decision 2564/2567: An unregistered buyer in possession loses to a good faith mortgagee and auction buyer
Decision 5669/2567: An internal dispute procedure does not remove the right to sue over ownership
Decision 3885/2568: An owner can sue over land forfeited by an administrative narcotics decision
Decision 8105/2568: A creditor can challenge execution against assets in the court where they are
Decision 8322/2568: A foreigner can recover nominee land only on section 94 terms
Decision 9161/2568: A valid arbitration clause can send a dispute abroad despite a proper domicile venue

Succession and wills

Decision 891/2493: An oral will fails if there were no special circumstances or no prompt report
Decision 726/2496: Sudden colic is not an epidemic and does not justify an oral will
Decision 2082/2529: A district office will lacking the official seal can still be a valid ordinary will
Decision 3460/2530: An oral will is invalid if the testator could not speak or was not in imminent danger
Decision 1357/2534: An heir applying to be administrator must prove he is fit for the role
Decision 4043/2534: A handwritten note stating who gets the property after death can be a valid will
Decision 6013/2534: A lapsed gift in a will passes to the statutory heirs, who may seek to administer
Decision 5972-5973/2538: A court may add a co-administrator whose powers are limited to named assets
Decision 6595/2538: A will with no date is void and the estate passes as if there were no will
Decision 8222/2540: A holographic will must carry a date and an undated will is void
Decision 72/2542: Siblings do not inherit when the deceased left a descendant, so a widow may administer alone
Decision 4791/2542: A boy registered as the deceased’s son is not an heir if not his real child
Decision 8045/2544: Witnesses to a public will must see and hear the testator’s declaration
Decision 8018/2547: Extra witness signatures do not spoil a will written wholly by hand
Decision 9189/2547: An unregistered partner can be appointed co-administrator of the estate
Decision 2733/2548: A remote heir can be appointed estate administrator despite long delay
Decision 3662-3663/2548: Corrections made before a public will is complete need no countersignature
Decision 1223/2551: A printed military will form is void unless properly witnessed or handwritten
Decision 2102/2551: Witnesses who sign years after a typed will was signed do not make it valid
Decision 8189/2551: A public will can be made outside the district office by an acting district official
Decision 4698/2552: A public will is void if one witness signed a blank sheet without seeing the testator
Decision 9497/2552: An administrator appointed under a will manages the whole estate
Decision 4397/2553: Void gifts in a will go to the statutory heirs, not the other beneficiary
Decision 9599/2553: Property a will fails to dispose of passes to the statutory heirs
Decision 11034/2553: A will is void if either witness signed without seeing the testator sign
Decision 5691/2554: A widow shares the estate equally with the children as if she were a child
Decision 17338/2555: An unwitnessed alteration to a valid will is ignored without voiding the will
Decision 12752/2556: An oral wish to create a foundation is not an oral will without special circumstances
Decision 18489/2556: A will cannot pass a savings account the testator opened for a minor child
Decision 18882-18883/2557: Social security death benefits do not form part of the insured person’s estate
Decision 1276/2558: A surviving spouse inherits even from the other’s personal property, passing to descendants
Decision 1339/2558: A court cannot void a will for witness defects that nobody pleaded
Decision 2832-2833/2558: A certified thumbprint can satisfy the witness rules for an ordinary will
Decision 8687-8688/2558: Witnesses to a will may also certify a fingerprint, and a deaf testator’s will can stand
Decision 9683-9685/2558: A will is valid when witnesses see the signing and corrections are signed by all
Decision 2210/2559: Property a person only managed for others cannot be left by will
Decision 2864/2559: A settler’s right to use State land passes to his heirs as part of his estate
Decision 2874/2559: A will clause over property the testator did not own fails alone, not the whole will
Decision 9311/2559: A document that gives land now is a gift needing registration, not a will
Decision 3536/2560: An official’s questions and the testator’s confirmation satisfy the public will declaration
Decision 3884/2560: An oral gift of unpaid instalments needs writing, and a spouse shares with siblings
Decision 113/2561: An administrator can evict people occupying land a settler left in his estate
Decision 1518/2561: A public will is valid with every formal element and the challenger bears the burden
Decision 5288/2561: A will brought to the witnesses already signed by the testatrix is void
Decision 1180/2563: Land bought unlawfully by a foreigner in a son’s name stays in the estate
Decision 692/2564: An oral wish about funeral arrangements has no legal force without a valid will
Decision 4241/2565: A power of attorney that merely mentions death is not a will
Decision 4767/2565: Debts arising from administering the estate can bind the heirs or the estate
Decision 1023/2566: An administrator cannot give estate land to non-heirs who then claim the inheritance limit
Decision 1323/2566: A father’s spoken promise of land is not an oral will, so the land stays in the estate
Decision 1488/2566: Heirs must sue a dishonest estate administrator within five years of administration ending
Decision 2241/2566: An interested person need not be an heir to apply to administer an estate
Decision 3402/2566: An heir in possession of undivided estate land can still claim partition late
Decision 4557/2566: An heir’s signed acknowledgment of the deceased’s debt removes the one-year limit
Decision 4769/2566: The court can reshape a deadlocked panel of joint estate administrators
Decision 4887/2566: Without a will the estate passes to statutory heirs but a good faith mortgage stands
Decision 574-575/2567: A void will gives its beneficiary no standing to apply as administrator
Decision 2232/2567: A civil judgment against a deceased defendant can be enforced against his heirs
Decision 2629/2567: When one of two joint administrators dies the survivor can apply as sole administrator
Decision 2656/2567: Bank deposits are valued for inheritance tax at the date of death
Decision 4044/2567: A handwritten will on a printed form is valid if its substance is a last disposition
Decision 8420/2568: A seizure for one heir’s debts cannot affect other heirs’ inheritance rights
Decision 8829/2568: The one-year limit on claims against an estate runs from knowing of the death
Decision 8935/2568: A disinherited mother disputing ownership can join in administering estate land
Decision 8936/2568: Family side deals do not stop the ten-year limit on inheritance claims
Decision 284/2569: An administrator who transfers estate land to herself has not distributed it
Decision 1287/2569: A share left by will vests in the heirs at death and the administrator cannot transfer it

Contracts and leases

Decision 599/2500: Oral side arrangements around a registered land sale to a foreigner bind no one
Decision 1274/2501: A sub-agent can sue in Thailand if the authority expressly covers litigation
Decision 2180/2522: A lease that permits assignment can be transferred and seized by creditors
Decision 2288/2536: A general power of attorney lets an agent assign a claim under section 801
Decision 1050/2539: Unauthorised subletting lets the landlord terminate a lease immediately
Decision 383/2540: A bare right to assign a lease does not by itself make it inheritable
Decision 1729/2540: A 30-year lease alone does not make a lease pass to the lessee’s heirs
Decision 6843/2541: Letting out a building on leased land can breach a no-subletting clause
Decision 1690/2551: A power to sue any person is valid and cures an earlier sub-delegation
Decision 6659/2551: One standing power of attorney to sue can cover many defendants
Decision 8093/2551: A buyer staying on land after an unregistered khai fak gains no possessory right
Decision 9201/2551: A lease cannot be left by will unless the lease itself provides for death
Decision 1510/2552: A registered khai fak contract’s receipt clause binds the parties on payment
Decision 1990/2552: A tenant’s utility security deposit stays with the former landlord, not the buyer
Decision 2105-2106/2552: A general power to conduct cases covers disputes before and after it is signed
Decision 5801/2552: An unregistered sale with a promise to buy back is a void khai fak
Decision 44/2553: A buyer of let property can recover post-transfer rent and the tenant’s deposit
Decision 752/2553: Any agreed return for use of land can make an arrangement a lease
Decision 2083/2554: Listing litigation among an agent’s powers is enough to authorise suing
Decision 13288/2556: An oral sublease gives no protection against the owner when the head tenant is evicted
Decision 765/2557: A buyer of let property is not bound by the seller’s earlier assignment of future rent
Decision 990-991/2558: A subtenant has no better right than the head tenant when the head lease ends
Decision 1564/2558: Splitting a long lease into three-year leases does not secure the full term
Decision 2158/2558: An owner suing as owner can evict an occupier without proving a written lease
Decision 9535/2558: After a registered sale, the rent belongs to the new owner of the land
Decision 11044/2558: Supplying a crane with its operator is hire of work, not a lease
Decision 2521/2559: Oral promises cannot add to a written land sale agreement, so the deposit is lost
Decision 3836/2559: A long lease and lease-back of an airport is a genuine hire of property for tax
Decision 11058/2559: A registered 30-year lease with a sublet clause can pass to the lessee’s heirs
Decision 6834/2560: Commercial equipment leases are ordinary hire contracts unless ownership will pass
Decision 9990/2560: A fully paid pre-2008 condominium buyer can resist a later bad-faith registered buyer
Decision 1476/2561: Handing over possession of land can outweigh the register for possessory-right land
Decision 2359/2561: A power of attorney to sign company documents does not authorise suing
Decision 5149/2561: A power of attorney to conduct court proceedings includes authority to sue
Decision 5120-5122/2562: A good-faith khai fak buyer is protected only up to the redemption price
Decision 3692/2564: A khai fak contract that is really a secured loan is treated as a pledge
Decision 131/2565: An unregistered private sale of land is void and leaves only a short money claim
Decision 2775/2565: Rent for the period before a written lease was signed cannot be enforced
Decision 751/2566: Overstating the sum on a signed blank loan form can cost the lender the whole debt
Decision 1112/2566: Large transfers described in chats as investments are not enforceable as loans
Decision 4859/2566: A khai fak seller keeps a protected right to redeem even if the buyer’s assets are frozen
Decision 514/2567: A borrower who admits the loan cannot rely on the written evidence rule
Decision 1263/2567: A lender cannot keep a borrower’s title deed without signed proof of the loan
Decision 2162/2567: A chat routine of stating the loan and getting ‘agreed’ back can prove a loan

Obligations and torts

Decision 923/2549: A daily holdover charge in a lease is a penalty the court may reduce
Decision 6941/2560: An owner suing to recover its property is not caught by the one-year tort limit
Decision 1993/2562: The one-year tort period runs from knowledge of actual loss, not the first event
Decision 686/2564: A condominium can recover from a negligent manager after the tort period has passed
Decision 103/2565: Where the wrong is also a serious crime the tort claim has the longer criminal period
Decision 2764/2565: Consumers injured by slow-acting treatments may have three years to claim
Decision 1574/2566: A tenant leaving early is not automatically liable for all remaining rent
Decision 1765/2566: A time-barred tort claim may survive as a claim against an agent or representative
Decision 3290/2566: A compound interest clause in a loan can be cut back as a penalty
Decision 4290/2566: An early termination fee in a vehicle lease is a penalty the court can cut
Decision 432-433/2567: Signing blank forms as loan security can cost a landowner the land itself
Decision 2008/2567: A claim against a condominium juristic person must plead its legal basis from the start
Decision 6779/2567: A shortfall clause after a hire purchase car is returned is a reducible penalty
Decision 8982/2568: Punitive damages are not a penalty and cannot be reduced under section 383

Property offences and fraud

Decision 7088/2550: An enclosed private area in front of a unit can be part of the dwelling
Decision 540/2554: Entering premises open to the public is not trespass on a dwelling
Decision 7836/2556: Failing to pay for goods taken on sale or return is a civil debt
Decision 4096/2557: A caretaker holding keys and paying utilities commits theft, not misappropriation
Decision 1185/2561: A settlement can end a simple trespass prosecution even after an appeal judgment
Decision 2744/2562: A foreign buyer defrauded by a would-be nominee can be a criminal complainant
Decision 4893-4895/2565: Land investment sold on forged documents is fraud and restitution can be ordered
Decision 185/2566: Ignoring a civil judgment to block a neighbour’s access can lead to conviction
Decision 1496/2567: Each separate deception in a visa or nationality scam is a separate fraud count
Decision 2212/2567: A misappropriation complaint filed over three months after knowing the facts is time-barred
Decision 7211/2568: Settling a compoundable fraud case works only before the judgment is final

General principles

Decision 2711/2544: A land transfer hiding a redeemable sale is void and the parties restore each other
Decision 7770/2547: A sub-licence from an unregistered licensee is void and the payment cannot be recovered
Decision 6190/2550: An unregistered trademark licence is void and gives no standing to sue
Decision 4049/2555: A fuel-station franchise is not a trademark licence needing registration
Decision 840/2561: A foreign company’s condominium purchase outside the statutory categories is void
Decision 5440/2561: A sale with right of redemption disguised as a transfer is void if not registered
Decision 6025/2561: A payment to police to avoid prosecution of workers cannot be deducted from the price
Decision 1994/2566: An agreement to sell land is not a void sale for lack of registration
Decision 8418/2568: A private sale of state settlement land before the certificate issues is void

Criminal liability and defences

Decision 9435/2554: A defamation complainant whose own claim rests on a forged document has no standing
Decision 1861/2561: Public figures must tolerate wider criticism and obvious figurative abuse
Decision 4403/2566: Revenge posting can bring separate convictions for defamation and computer crime
Decision 406/2567: Honest criticism of a senior public official’s conduct is protected comment
Decision 418/2567: Insinuation in question form is still defamation by publication
Decision 976/2567: Broadcasting remarks online is defamation by publication even without naming the target
Decision 1351/2567: A combined defamation and publication charge belongs in the provincial court
Decision 5796/2567: A good-faith complaint to the proper authority is not defamation

Offences against life and body

Decision 18538/2555: A police interpreter’s translation of foreign witnesses can support a conviction
Decision 413/2560: Full compensation after an assault can turn detention into a suspended sentence
Decision 7491/2562: Assaulting foreign workers is punished as separate counts beside trafficking
Decision 361/2563: A victim’s compensation award follows the criminal finding even without an appeal
Decision 4292/2567: Defending a spouse with one proportionate punch is lawful self-defence
Decision 3538/2569: Courts reduce attempted murder to assault from the weapon, wounds and motive

Week of 26 October 2026

Supreme Court decisions added (18)

Family law

Decision 7534/2560: Leaving a Sick Spouse for Over a Year Is Desertion; the Other Woman Cannot Appeal the Divorce
Decision 7795/2560: A New Reason for Living Apart Cannot Be Raised for the First Time in the Supreme Court
Decision 8151/2560: At-Fault Spouse Cannot Claim Alimony but May Get Maintenance Until the Divorce Is Final
Decision 157/2561: A Wife Locked Out After Complaining of Her Husband’s Affair Has Not Deserted Him
Decision 875/2561: No Post-Divorce Alimony After a Consent Settlement Because No Spouse Is Found at Fault
Decision 5259-5260/2561: Secret Recording Admissible to Prove Adultery and Third Party Cannot Invoke One-Year Limit
Decision 4104/2564: Expelling the Wife From the Home Is Serious Hostility; Later Family Trips Are Not Forgiveness
Decision 4969/2565: Divorce by Consent Judgment Gives No Right to Compensation From the Spouse Under Section 1523
Decision 4977/2565: Spouse’s Death During Appeal Ends Marriage Before Divorce Is Final but Lover Still Pays
Decision 1519-1520/2566: An Earlier Dismissed Divorce Suit Does Not Bar Using the Same Facts to Prove a New Ground
Decision 1869/2566: No Thai Divorce From a Foreign Spouse Unless Their National Law Is Proved to Allow Divorce
Decision 452/2567: Divorce Registration Agreement Giving One Spouse the House Is Read to Include the Land
Decision 1242/2567: Sole-Fault Divorce Leaving the Older Spouse Poorer Gives a Right to Alimony
Decision 5579/2567: Compensation Claim Against Mistress Fails as Bad Faith After Years of Knowing Tolerance
Decision 1319/2568: Divorce Agreement on Sale Proceeds Binds Former Spouse Even When the Sale Is a Court Auction
Decision 3247-3248/2568: Adultery Issues Are Framed by the Pleadings, Not by the Court’s Abbreviated Statement of Issues
Decision 3615/2568: Spouse Who Admits Marital Assets Existed but Says They Were Sold Bears the Burden of Proof
Decision 8321/2568: Provident Fund and GPF Balances Accrued During Marriage Are Sin Somros Up to the Filing Date

Week of 28 September 2026

Supreme Court decision pages revised (11)

Decision 1627/2505: Construction contributions and a 14-year occupation bargain
Decision 379/2511: Special reciprocal status does not carry forward automatically
Decision 412/2511: Special reciprocal lease remains subject to rent obligations
Decision 1925/2517: Written acceptance creates a new three-year lease
Decision 3279/2524: A 30-year construction agreement binds the landlord’s estate
Decision 2526/2531: Estate bound by construction lease, registration claim time-barred
Decision 2759/2534: Car-park construction does not determine the lease duration
Decision 4872/2539: Renewal against an heir: knowledge of death and acceptance
Decision 8534/2542: Construction bargain protects the agreed 20-year term
Decision 3801/2555: Uncertain rent and duration defeat a renewal claim
Decision 4208/2567: Remand concerning an unresolved counterclaim, not final lease enforcement

Week of 21 September 2026

Supreme Court decision pages revised (1)

Decision 1213/2517: Landlord’s death known before acceptance of a renewal promise

Week of 14 September 2026

Supreme Court decision pages revised (1)

Decision 5856/2567: Wife Suing Husband’s Mistress for Damages Must Plead Public Display of Adulterous Relationship

Week of 7 September 2026

Supreme Court decisions added (12)

Contracts and leases

Decision 1627/2505: Construction contributions and a 14-year occupation bargain
Decision 379/2511: Special reciprocal status does not carry forward automatically
Decision 412/2511: Special reciprocal lease remains subject to rent obligations
Decision 1213/2517: Landlord’s death known before acceptance of a renewal promise
Decision 1925/2517: Written acceptance creates a new three-year lease
Decision 3279/2524: A 30-year construction agreement binds the landlord’s estate
Decision 2526/2531: Estate bound by construction lease, registration claim time-barred
Decision 2759/2534: Car-park construction does not determine the lease duration
Decision 4872/2539: Renewal against an heir: knowledge of death and acceptance
Decision 8534/2542: Construction bargain protects the agreed 20-year term
Decision 3801/2555: Uncertain rent and duration defeat a renewal claim
Decision 4208/2567: Remand concerning an unresolved counterclaim, not final lease enforcement

Supreme Court decision pages revised (5)

Decision 1023/2531: Provocation, Not Self-Defence: Section 290 with Section 72
Decision 2790/2531: Cutting Across a Motorcycle at Speed in a Narrow Lane Is Intent to Kill by Foresight
Decision 6290/2537: Continuous Acts Aimed at Rape Are One Offense Punished Under the Heaviest Provision
Decision 208/2554: A Bullet Passing Through One Victim Into Another Is Attempted Murder by Transferred Intent
Decision 6336/2557: Sexual Intercourse Under Section 277: Oral and Anal Acts

Week of 31 August 2026

Supreme Court decision pages revised (100)

Decision 877/2501: Stealing electricity constitutes theft under Section 334 or aggravated theft under Section 335
Decision 59/2502: Believing the Victim Is Invulnerable Does Not Negate Intent to Kill
Decision 983/2508: Section 291 Does Not Reach an Omission: Acquittal of the Station Master
Decision 1408/2512: Threatening Violence to Escape Arrest Turns Theft into Robbery
Decision 1432/2515: Mistake of person under Section 61 is no defence to the charge, and the ambushers who shot the wrong rider remain guilty of premeditated murder under Section 289(4).
Decision 1396/2518: Secret Document Will: Validity Requirements
Decision 1294/2521: Calling out during the royal anthem while refusing to stand as everyone else did showed an intention to insult the King under Section 112.
Decision 1385/2522: Forgery, Use of the Forged Document and Fraud Are One Act Punished Under Section 268
Decision 1950/2527: Beating Without Intent to Kill Is Killing Without Intention Under Section 290
Decision 3090/2527: Section 289(2) applies only where the official was actually performing a duty at the time, so killing a duty NCO who was resting in his tent is murder under Section 288 alone.
Decision 1478/2528: The death was a natural and direct consequence of the shooting
Decision 337/2530: Interspousal Gift: Marital to Personal Property Conversion
Decision 263/2531: Repeated blunt force trauma to a vital area such as the head
Decision 98/2532: An open door is not a ‘barrier for protecting persons or property’
Decision 361/2532: A Shotgun Fired From the Hip at Close Range Leaves Intent to Kill in Doubt
Decision 3792/2533: Killing and Then Taking Is Not Murder to Obtain Property Under Section 289(7)
Decision 5592/2533: Firing Into an Occupied House at Night Is Intent to Kill by Foresight
Decision 5248/2537: A Death Sentence Reviewed Automatically Is Final: No Cassation
Decision 6683/2537: Borrower Lacks Standing to Claim Vehicle Damage
Decision 6711/2537: Prenuptial Agreement and Immovable Property
Decision 2690/2538: Nominee Land for a Foreigner: Not Wholly Void, but a Good-Faith Buyer Takes Priority
Decision 2755/2539: Stabbing to Stop a Beating With a Stick Is Lawful Self-Defense Under Section 68
Decision 2966/2539: Theft From an Employer Under Section 335(11) Does Not Require Entrusted Property
Decision 2417/2540: Where Penetration Does Not Occur the Offense Is Attempted Rape
Decision 5277/2540: Lease Renewal Clause Is Discretionary
Decision 6763/2541: A Promise to Renew a Lease Is a Personal Right and Does Not Bind a Later Transferee of the Land
Decision 4181/2542: Goods Given to Sell on the Owner’s Account: Misappropriation, Not a Civil Debt
Decision 9/2543: Taking an ATM Card Is an Offence Against a Document Under Section 188
Decision 6884/2543: A self-defense claim under Section 68 is unavailable when the threat originates
Decision 2567/2544: Firing Into a Crowd in a Confined Space Is Intent to Kill by Foresight
Decision 2971/2544: Silence on Maintenance in a Divorce Agreement Does Not Bind the Court
Decision 8694/2544: A Second Shot Is a Fresh Intent, and a Stray Round Is Attempted Murder by Transferred Intent
Decision 2742/2545: Half-Siblings as Statutory Heirs
Decision 3290/2545: Paternity and Maintenance in Single Action
Decision 6083/2546: Dismemberment Shows Concealment, Not Torture Under Section 289(5)
Decision 8104/2548: A Co-Robber Is Liable Under Section 339 Paragraph Two Even Without Knowing His Companion Was Armed
Decision 8015/2551: An Unregistered Superficies Still Binds the Parties Who Signed It: Just Not Third Parties
Decision 10344/2551: A Gift With a Reserved Usufruct is a Burdened Gift: Cannot Be Revoked for Ingratitude Under Section 535
Decision 7199/2552: A Will Granting ‘Right of Habitation and Usufruct for Life’ Gives Only Usufructuary Rights, Not Ownership
Decision 8155/2555: The Supreme Court upheld the acquittal of an ambulance driver who passed a red light on an emergency run
Decision 16412/2555: Leaving the Person You Injured to Die Is Attempted Murder by Omission
Decision 15067/2557: Misreported Test Results: A Hospital Is Jointly Liable, and Time Runs Only from Knowing Both
Decision 17923/2557: Lease That Was Really a Sale: Foreign Buyers Cannot Compel Transfer to a Nominee Company
Decision 1296/2558: Built Before Registration: Not Marital Property, but Co-owned
Decision 3464/2558: Apartment Let Monthly or Longer Only Is Not a Place of Like Kind to a Hotel, So No Innkeeper Liability
Decision 8565-8566/2558: The company that installed the pyrotechnics was found criminally liable alongside its directors
Decision 13089-13090/2558: Shares Are Not Property That Can Be Misappropriated Under Section 352
Decision 2252/2560: Foreign Company Trading Land Loses the Right to Prosecute Its Own Directors
Decision 5457/2560: Sham Loan Hiding a Business Bought Through Thai Nominee Shareholders: Void, and the Money Irrecoverable
Decision 7345/2560: Child Maintenance Runs From Birth, Not From the Judgment
Decision 2236/2562: Cooperative Shares Bought via Salary Deduction During Marriage are Sin Somros
Decision 5299/2562: Excessive Self-Defense Under a Mistake of Fact: Attempted Murder, Sentence Suspended
Decision 2588/2564: Default Interest Steps Down to 5% from 11 April 2564
Decision 3122/2564: Commercial Leasehold Acquired by a Spouse During Marriage is Presumed Sin Somros Under Section 1474 paragraph two
Decision 3965/2564: Hire-Purchase: A 30-Day Notice Clause Blocks Early Termination
Decision 6010/2564: Civil Evidence Independent of Criminal Proceedings
Decision 6234/2564: School Officials: Joint Tort Liability for Unlawful Expulsion
Decision 186/2565: Land Given by One Spouse to the Other Without ‘Sin Somros’ Designation Becomes the Recipient’s Separate Property
Decision 1523/2565: Unmarried Partner Takes Half by Co-ownership, and the Loan Was a Sham
Decision 1674/2565: An Unregistered Partnership Dissolves on a Partner’s Death
Decision 2345/2565: Brand Ambassador Contract Breach: Restoration Required
Decision 2756/2565: A Shared Wall Between Adjoining Townhouses is Co-Owned Property: Not a Superficies Under Section 1410
Decision 2794/2565: No Contribution Between Joint Debtors Where One Did Not Contribute to the Harm
Decision 3379/2565: A Claim of Legitimacy Filed by the Putative Child Lapses One Year After Reaching Majority: Section 1556 paragraph three
Decision 3772/2565: Father May Re-File Paternity Claim if Prior Case Ended in Settlement Rather Than Adjudication
Decision 159/2566: A Company Is Not Bound Outside Its Objects; Signing Is Not Ratification
Decision 2651/2566: Director Acting in Bad Faith Becomes Personally Liable Alongside the Company
Decision 4538/2566: A Company Struck Off the Register as Defunct Needs No Liquidation
Decision 4655/2566: A 30+30+30 Lease Paid Up Front: the Renewal Promise Is Void, the First 30 Years Stand
Decision 220/2567: Way of Necessity (Section 1349) Must Be Strictly Construed: A Navigable River Still Counts as a Public Way
Decision 372/2567: Land Given by a Parent During the Marriage Is Sin Suan Tua and Cannot Be Seized for the Other Spouse’s Debt
Decision 451/2567: Three-Year Separation Divorce Ground Fails If Only One Spouse Wanted It
Decision 453/2567: Court May Allow a Parent to Sell a Minor’s Co-Owned Land for Education
Decision 464/2567: Loss of Use After a Building Stop-Use Order Is Ordinary Damage, Not Special Damage Under Section 222
Decision 1218/2567: Child Support Order Can Be Modified When the Child Permanently Moves to the Other Parent
Decision 1649/2567: A Guardian Cannot Renounce a Minor’s Inheritance Without Prior Court Approval
Decision 1781/2567: Selling the Land Is No Breach but Makes the Rent Share Impossible
Decision 2109/2567: Maintenance Does Not Depend on a Divorce, and the Husband’s Divorce Claim Failed
Decision 2359/2567: A Director Cannot Run a Competing Business Without Shareholder Consent
Decision 5902/2567: Mortgaging Estate Land for an Administrator’s Own Debt Is a Crime
Decision 44/2568: Administrator Transferring Estate Property to Self as Co-Heir Is Within Powers and Not Void Under Section 150
Decision 399/2568: Damages for Loss of Use from Wrongful Property Retention Have a One-Year Limitation Period
Decision 748/2568: Mistress is Liable for Damages Only If She Knew the Man Was Married: Heightened Evidentiary Standard
Decision 928/2568: Settlement Agreements Must Be Performed Exactly As Written: No Implied Obligations
Decision 1303/2568: Forfeiting All Sin Somros for Assault Is a Penalty and Was Reduced
Decision 1383/2568: A Compromise Settling the Old Debt Does Not Bar Setting Aside a Pre-Settlement Fraudulent Transfer
Decision 1552/2568: Common Boundary Walls in Housing Estates Belong to the Estate, Not the Individual Lot Owner
Decision 1687/2568: Adverse Possession Value in Controversy is Set by the Parties’ Stipulation, Not by Government Appraisal
Decision 2710/2568: Mortgage Foreclosure After 2014 Amendment Requires 60-Day Default Notice: Even on Pre-Amendment Mortgages
Decision 3001/2568: Renewing the Lease with Majority Estate-Administrators After the Old Lease Ends Does Not Breach the Prior Settlement
Decision 3107/2568: Assignee of a Claim May Sue to Set Aside a Debtor’s Fraudulent Transfer Under Section 237
Decision 3230/2568: Hire-Purchase Lessee Cannot Recover a Car Pawned by His Mother
Decision 3718/2568: An Auction Buyer of an Allotted Plot Takes the Utility Servitude and May Compel Its Registration
Decision 3902/2568: On the Father’s Death, Parental Power Automatically Vests Solely in the Surviving Mother
Decision 4273/2568: Section 1750’s Forms of Estate Distribution, and Why an Heir Suing Alone Recovers Only Her Share
Decision 4746/2568: Where Co-Heirs Tacitly Accept an Administrator’s Self-Transfer for Years, the Estate is Deemed Distributed
Decision 5326/2568: General Spousal Consent to Sign Documents is Not Ratification of a Joint Debt Under Section 1490(4)
Decision 5328/2568: Transfer of Marital Property Between Spouses Does Not Defraud Creditors When the Whole Property Remains Reachable
Decision 5409/2568: Warning First, Then Default, Then Notice to the Guarantor
Decision 6631/2568: Refinancing With a New Lender: the Assignment Rules Apply, and the Objection Failed on the Pleadings

Week of 24 August 2026

Supreme Court decisions added (1)

Family law

Decision 7345/2560: Child Maintenance Runs From Birth, Not From the Judgment

Supreme Court decision pages revised (2)

Decision 1326/2510: Each Driver’s Own Negligence Was a Direct Cause, So Both Are Guilty Under Section 291
Decision 4978/2562: Waiting Too Far Away to Help Makes an Accomplice, Not a Co-Principal

Week of 17 August 2026

Supreme Court decisions added (2)

Property law

Decision 6763/2541: A Promise to Renew a Lease Is a Personal Right and Does Not Bind a Later Transferee of the Land
Decision 3464/2558: Apartment Let Monthly or Longer Only Is Not a Place of Like Kind to a Hotel, So No Innkeeper Liability

Week of 11 May 2026

Supreme Court decisions added (105)

Offences against life and body

Decision 59/2502: Believing the Victim Is Invulnerable Does Not Negate Intent to Kill
Decision 983/2508: Section 291 Does Not Reach an Omission: Acquittal of the Station Master
Decision 1326/2510: Each Driver’s Own Negligence Was a Direct Cause, So Both Are Guilty Under Section 291
Decision 1432/2515: Mistake of person under Section 61 is no defence to the charge, and the ambushers who shot the wrong rider remain guilty of premeditated murder under Section 289(4).
Decision 1950/2527: Beating Without Intent to Kill Is Killing Without Intention Under Section 290
Decision 3090/2527: Section 289(2) applies only where the official was actually performing a duty at the time, so killing a duty NCO who was resting in his tent is murder under Section 288 alone.
Decision 1478/2528: The death was a natural and direct consequence of the shooting
Decision 263/2531: Repeated blunt force trauma to a vital area such as the head
Decision 1023/2531: Provocation, Not Self-Defence: Section 290 with Section 72
Decision 2790/2531: Cutting Across a Motorcycle at Speed in a Narrow Lane Is Intent to Kill by Foresight
Decision 361/2532: A Shotgun Fired From the Hip at Close Range Leaves Intent to Kill in Doubt
Decision 3792/2533: Killing and Then Taking Is Not Murder to Obtain Property Under Section 289(7)
Decision 5592/2533: Firing Into an Occupied House at Night Is Intent to Kill by Foresight
Decision 5248/2537: A Death Sentence Reviewed Automatically Is Final: No Cassation
Decision 2755/2539: Stabbing to Stop a Beating With a Stick Is Lawful Self-Defense Under Section 68
Decision 2567/2544: Firing Into a Crowd in a Confined Space Is Intent to Kill by Foresight
Decision 8694/2544: A Second Shot Is a Fresh Intent, and a Stray Round Is Attempted Murder by Transferred Intent
Decision 6083/2546: Dismemberment Shows Concealment, Not Torture Under Section 289(5)
Decision 208/2554: A Bullet Passing Through One Victim Into Another Is Attempted Murder by Transferred Intent
Decision 8155/2555: The Supreme Court upheld the acquittal of an ambulance driver who passed a red light on an emergency run
Decision 16412/2555: Leaving the Person You Injured to Die Is Attempted Murder by Omission
Decision 8565-8566/2558: The company that installed the pyrotechnics was found criminally liable alongside its directors
Decision 4978/2562: Waiting Too Far Away to Help Makes an Accomplice, Not a Co-Principal
Decision 5299/2562: Excessive Self-Defense Under a Mistake of Fact: Attempted Murder, Sentence Suspended

Family law

Decision 337/2530: Interspousal Gift: Marital to Personal Property Conversion
Decision 2971/2544: Silence on Maintenance in a Divorce Agreement Does Not Bind the Court
Decision 3290/2545: Paternity and Maintenance in Single Action
Decision 1296/2558: Built Before Registration: Not Marital Property, but Co-owned
Decision 2236/2562: Cooperative Shares Bought via Salary Deduction During Marriage are Sin Somros
Decision 3122/2564: Commercial Leasehold Acquired by a Spouse During Marriage is Presumed Sin Somros Under Section 1474 paragraph two
Decision 186/2565: Land Given by One Spouse to the Other Without ‘Sin Somros’ Designation Becomes the Recipient’s Separate Property
Decision 1523/2565: Unmarried Partner Takes Half by Co-ownership, and the Loan Was a Sham
Decision 3379/2565: A Claim of Legitimacy Filed by the Putative Child Lapses One Year After Reaching Majority: Section 1556 paragraph three
Decision 3772/2565: Father May Re-File Paternity Claim if Prior Case Ended in Settlement Rather Than Adjudication
Decision 372/2567: Land Given by a Parent During the Marriage Is Sin Suan Tua and Cannot Be Seized for the Other Spouse’s Debt
Decision 451/2567: Three-Year Separation Divorce Ground Fails If Only One Spouse Wanted It
Decision 453/2567: Court May Allow a Parent to Sell a Minor’s Co-Owned Land for Education
Decision 1218/2567: Child Support Order Can Be Modified When the Child Permanently Moves to the Other Parent
Decision 1649/2567: A Guardian Cannot Renounce a Minor’s Inheritance Without Prior Court Approval
Decision 1781/2567: Selling the Land Is No Breach but Makes the Rent Share Impossible
Decision 2109/2567: Maintenance Does Not Depend on a Divorce, and the Husband’s Divorce Claim Failed
Decision 5856/2567: Wife Suing Husband’s Mistress for Damages Must Plead Public Display of Adulterous Relationship
Decision 748/2568: Mistress is Liable for Damages Only If She Knew the Man Was Married: Heightened Evidentiary Standard
Decision 1303/2568: Forfeiting All Sin Somros for Assault Is a Penalty and Was Reduced
Decision 3902/2568: On the Father’s Death, Parental Power Automatically Vests Solely in the Surviving Mother
Decision 5326/2568: General Spousal Consent to Sign Documents is Not Ratification of a Joint Debt Under Section 1490(4)

Property law

Decision 8015/2551: An Unregistered Superficies Still Binds the Parties Who Signed It: Just Not Third Parties
Decision 10344/2551: A Gift With a Reserved Usufruct is a Burdened Gift: Cannot Be Revoked for Ingratitude Under Section 535
Decision 7199/2552: A Will Granting ‘Right of Habitation and Usufruct for Life’ Gives Only Usufructuary Rights, Not Ownership
Decision 2756/2565: A Shared Wall Between Adjoining Townhouses is Co-Owned Property: Not a Superficies Under Section 1410
Decision 220/2567: Way of Necessity (Section 1349) Must Be Strictly Construed: A Navigable River Still Counts as a Public Way
Decision 5902/2567: Mortgaging Estate Land for an Administrator’s Own Debt Is a Crime
Decision 399/2568: Damages for Loss of Use from Wrongful Property Retention Have a One-Year Limitation Period
Decision 928/2568: Settlement Agreements Must Be Performed Exactly As Written: No Implied Obligations
Decision 1383/2568: A Compromise Settling the Old Debt Does Not Bar Setting Aside a Pre-Settlement Fraudulent Transfer
Decision 1552/2568: Common Boundary Walls in Housing Estates Belong to the Estate, Not the Individual Lot Owner
Decision 1687/2568: Adverse Possession Value in Controversy is Set by the Parties’ Stipulation, Not by Government Appraisal
Decision 2710/2568: Mortgage Foreclosure After 2014 Amendment Requires 60-Day Default Notice: Even on Pre-Amendment Mortgages
Decision 3001/2568: Renewing the Lease with Majority Estate-Administrators After the Old Lease Ends Does Not Breach the Prior Settlement
Decision 3107/2568: Assignee of a Claim May Sue to Set Aside a Debtor’s Fraudulent Transfer Under Section 237
Decision 3230/2568: Hire-Purchase Lessee Cannot Recover a Car Pawned by His Mother
Decision 3718/2568: An Auction Buyer of an Allotted Plot Takes the Utility Servitude and May Compel Its Registration
Decision 5328/2568: Transfer of Marital Property Between Spouses Does Not Defraud Creditors When the Whole Property Remains Reachable
Decision 5409/2568: Warning First, Then Default, Then Notice to the Guarantor
Decision 6631/2568: Refinancing With a New Lender: the Assignment Rules Apply, and the Objection Failed on the Pleadings

General principles

Decision 2690/2538: Nominee Land for a Foreigner: Not Wholly Void, but a Good-Faith Buyer Takes Priority
Decision 17923/2557: Lease That Was Really a Sale: Foreign Buyers Cannot Compel Transfer to a Nominee Company
Decision 2252/2560: Foreign Company Trading Land Loses the Right to Prosecute Its Own Directors
Decision 5457/2560: Sham Loan Hiding a Business Bought Through Thai Nominee Shareholders: Void, and the Money Irrecoverable
Decision 1674/2565: An Unregistered Partnership Dissolves on a Partner’s Death
Decision 159/2566: A Company Is Not Bound Outside Its Objects; Signing Is Not Ratification
Decision 2651/2566: Director Acting in Bad Faith Becomes Personally Liable Alongside the Company
Decision 4538/2566: A Company Struck Off the Register as Defunct Needs No Liquidation
Decision 464/2567: Loss of Use After a Building Stop-Use Order Is Ordinary Damage, Not Special Damage Under Section 222
Decision 2359/2567: A Director Cannot Run a Competing Business Without Shareholder Consent
Decision 44/2568: Administrator Transferring Estate Property to Self as Co-Heir Is Within Powers and Not Void Under Section 150

Obligations and torts

Decision 6683/2537: Borrower Lacks Standing to Claim Vehicle Damage
Decision 15067/2557: Misreported Test Results: A Hospital Is Jointly Liable, and Time Runs Only from Knowing Both
Decision 2588/2564: Default Interest Steps Down to 5% from 11 April 2564
Decision 3965/2564: Hire-Purchase: A 30-Day Notice Clause Blocks Early Termination
Decision 6010/2564: Civil Evidence Independent of Criminal Proceedings
Decision 6234/2564: School Officials: Joint Tort Liability for Unlawful Expulsion
Decision 2345/2565: Brand Ambassador Contract Breach: Restoration Required
Decision 2794/2565: No Contribution Between Joint Debtors Where One Did Not Contribute to the Harm

Property offences and fraud

Decision 877/2501: Stealing electricity constitutes theft under Section 334 or aggravated theft under Section 335
Decision 1408/2512: Threatening Violence to Escape Arrest Turns Theft into Robbery
Decision 98/2532: An open door is not a ‘barrier for protecting persons or property’
Decision 2966/2539: Theft From an Employer Under Section 335(11) Does Not Require Entrusted Property
Decision 4181/2542: Goods Given to Sell on the Owner’s Account: Misappropriation, Not a Civil Debt
Decision 8104/2548: A Co-Robber Is Liable Under Section 339 Paragraph Two Even Without Knowing His Companion Was Armed
Decision 13089-13090/2558: Shares Are Not Property That Can Be Misappropriated Under Section 352

Succession and wills

Decision 1396/2518: Secret Document Will: Validity Requirements
Decision 2742/2545: Half-Siblings as Statutory Heirs
Decision 4273/2568: Section 1750’s Forms of Estate Distribution, and Why an Heir Suing Alone Recovers Only Her Share
Decision 4746/2568: Where Co-Heirs Tacitly Accept an Administrator’s Self-Transfer for Years, the Estate is Deemed Distributed

Criminal liability and defences

Decision 1385/2522: Forgery, Use of the Forged Document and Fraud Are One Act Punished Under Section 268
Decision 6290/2537: Continuous Acts Aimed at Rape Are One Offense Punished Under the Heaviest Provision
Decision 2417/2540: Where Penetration Does Not Occur the Offense Is Attempted Rape
Decision 6884/2543: A self-defense claim under Section 68 is unavailable when the threat originates

Contracts and leases

Decision 6711/2537: Prenuptial Agreement and Immovable Property
Decision 5277/2540: Lease Renewal Clause Is Discretionary
Decision 4655/2566: A 30+30+30 Lease Paid Up Front: the Renewal Promise Is Void, the First 30 Years Stand

Offences against the state and officials

Decision 1294/2521: Calling out during the royal anthem while refusing to stand as everyone else did showed an intention to insult the King under Section 112.

Sexual offences and liberty

Decision 6336/2557: Sexual Intercourse Under Section 277: Oral and Anal Acts

Forgery, documents and currency

Decision 9/2543: Taking an ATM Card Is an Offence Against a Document Under Section 188

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