Thailand Law Library

by Thailand Lawyer

Things are physical objects.

Property includes things as well as incorporeal objects, susceptible of having a value and of being appropriated.

Immovable property denotes land and things fixed permanently to land or forming a body therewith. It includes real rights connected with the land or things fixed to or forming a body with land.

Movable property denotes things other than immovable property. It includes rights connected therewith.

Divisible things are those which can be separated into real and distinct portions, each forming a perfect whole.

Indivisible things are those which cannot be separated without alteration in its substance as well as those which are considered indivisible by law.

Things outside of commerce are things incapable of appropriation, and those legally inalienable.

A component part of a thing is that which, according to its nature or local custom, is essential to its existence and cannot be separated without destroying, damaging or altering its form or nature.

The owner of a thing has ownership in all its component parts.

Trees when planted for an unlimited period of time are deemed to be component parts of the land on which they stand.

Trees which grow only for a limited period of time and crops which may be harvested one or more times a year are not component parts of the land.

Things temporarily fixed to land or to a building do not become component parts of the land or building. The same rule applies to a building or other structure which, in the exercise of a right over another person's land, has been fixed to the land by the person who has such right.

Accessories are movable things, which are, according to the usual local conception or clear intention of the owner of the principal thing, attached to such thing permanently for its management, use or preservation, and, by connection, adjustment or otherwise, brought by the owner into the relation with the principal thing, in which it must serve the principal thing.

Even though an accessory is temporarily served from the principal thing, it does not cease to be an accessory. Saving special disposition to the contrary, the accessory follows the principal thing.

By fruit of a thing is a natural fruit and legal fruit. Natural fruit denotes that which is a natural offspring of and is obtained from a thing in the normal possession or in the use thereof; and it is capable of acquisition at the time when it is severed from the thing.

Legal fruit denotes a thing or other interest obtained periodically by the owner from another person for the use of the thing; it is calculated and may be acquired day by day or according to a period of time fixed.