Book2 Division01 Title01 Chapter06
From Thai Codification Draft of 1919
DRAFT: CIVIL AND COMMERCIAL CODE FOR KINGDOM OF SIAM.
- The today existing (probably) only copy of its publication is in possession of the main library of Bangkok University. The detailed information and images of the original sources are available on the Centennial Website.
- The detailed information about the genealogical relations between the Draft 1919, Codes of 1923, Codes of 1925, and Code of 1992 is available at the "French Advisers' Heritage".
BOOK ON CAPACITY OF PERSONS.
DIVISION I. Natural Persons.
TITLE I. General Provisions.
Chapter VI. Disappearance.
Section 24.
- If a person has left his residence and it is uncertain whether he is living or dead, the Public Prosecutor or any interested person may, after one year has elapsed from the latest intelligence received, apply to the Court for an order appointing a manager of the property of that person.
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Section 25.
- If the absent person had appointed an agent with general authority, the application provided by the foregoing section shall be granted only if it appears that the management of the property by the agent is likely to cause injury to the absent person.
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Section 26.
- The agent appointed with general authority by the absent person may apply to the Court for an extension of his authority if it is necessary to do any act which is beyond the scope of such authority.
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Section 27.
- The manager appointed by the Court must make an inventory of the property of the absent person at the time when he assumes its management; such inventory shall be made in the presence of, and signed by, two witnesses.
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Section 28.
- [I] The manager has the powers of an agent with general authority as described in the Book on Obligations.
- [II] He can, with the previous consent of the Court, do any other act relating to the property of the absent person.
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Section 29.
- If the absent person had appointed an agent with special authority, the manager cannot interfere with such special agency, but he can apply to the Court for an order removing the agent if it appears that his management is likely to cause injury to the absent person.
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Section 30.
- The Court may, at any time, of its own motion or on the application of the Public Prosecutor or of any interested person:
- (1) Require the manager to give security for the management and return of the property entrusted to him;
- (2) Require him to give information as to the condition of the same property;
- (3) Remove him for reasonable cause and appoint another manager in his stead.
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Section 31.
- The Court may order that the manager shall receive a remuneration to be paid out of the property of the absent person.
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Section 32.
- The authority of the manager is extinguished in the following cases:
- (1) By the return of the absent person ;
- (2) By the death of the absent person being made certain;
- (3) By the Court removing the manager ;
- (4) By the resignation or the death of the manager;
- (5) By the declaration of disappearance as provided subsequently.
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Section 33.
- In so far as they are not contrary to or inconsistent with the provisions of this Chapter VI the provisions of the Book on Obligations concerning Agency apply to the management of the property of the absent person.
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Section 34.
- [I] If a person has left his residence and it has been uncertain for seven years whether he is living or dead, the Court may, on the application of the Public Prosecutor or of any interested person, make an order declaring that such person has disappeared.
- [II] The above period of seven years is reduced to three years when the last reliable evidence shows that the absent person was in a dangerous peril of his life such as having been involved in a shipwreck or in a war.
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Section 35.
- [I] When the order of the Court declaring that a person has disappeared has become final, such person is deemed to have died.
- [II] His estate shall devolve on his heirs according to the Law on Inheritance.
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Section 36.
- When the whole or part of the estate of the disappeared person has been transferred to his heirs and the disappeared person comes back, the heirs are bound to return to him such estate or part of the estate according to such provisions of the Book on Obligations concerning restitution for undue enrichment as refer to restitutions made by persons in good faith.
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Section 37.
- The right to claim the return of the whole or part of the estate as provided by the foregoing section is extinguished by prescription one year after the day when the disappeared person has come back.
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- Codes of 1923: 77
- Codes of 1925: -
- Codes of 1992: -
