Land Tenure Restriction Under the Land Code: A Study of the Scope and Legal Measures Appropriate to Thailand
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The objectives of this research article were to examine (1) land tenure under the Land Code of Thailand, (2) impacts of land ownership restriction and land tenure, and (3) guidelines on legal measures to restrict the right to own land in Thailand. The researchers used the qualitative research methodology by using 2 methods of data collection, namely document research, in-depth interviews of 80 people, and analyzed the data by using content analysis.
The research results show that the land tenure problem in Thailand is based on the current tenure of land under the Land Code. As a result, Thai natural persons and juristic persons have the right to own land in an unlimited number of capacities and without any legal measures to enforce the utilization of the land held in any way. The above problems therefore affect politics, society and economy because inequality causes disparities in land ownership. Therefore, Thailand needs to take legal and tax measures to restrict land ownership, and also the use of other legal measures to limit the right to own land to reduce the inequality in land ownership.
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