Property in Thailand Part 8 Boundary disputes
- Published: 21 Oct 2012 at 00.00
- Newspaper section: Spectrum
Let's say you have a long lease on some land and you've built a house on it. You've lived in the house for three or four years when somebody buys the lot next door. One day you come home from a shopping trip and there's a group of workmen building a fence between the two lots _ on your land.
You know the fence they're working on encroaches on your land because when you rented it the landlord hired a private surveyor, who put stakes on the boundaries. According to where the stakes are placed, the partially built fence is inside your property line by more than a metre.
You then go to your landlord. He pulls out his certificate of land title.
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