It's a land border marker, but could be any title — Google image can unfortunately not translate the Thai text — if your friend has a freehold chanote title, he will have a paper title deed. Please note that "chanote" is a nick name for Nor Sor See (NR4, officially Nor Sor See Jor) title deed, which is the only Thai title deed with full ownership. The title deed needs a red Garuda as emblem on top to be a freehold NR4 title with full ownership. Translated... Without a paper — i.e., title deed and preferably NR4 — you have no ownership. There are several classes of title deeds, like Nor Sor 3, whgcih is not a full ownership, but normally can be upgraded to NR4. Lots of farmland can be allowed to be used for farming by paying land tax, but this does not constiture ownership — however, locally in villages, the land might be sold, or rather selling the right to use the farmland by paying tax. Some title deeds are issued by a land office, other are issued for limited use by other departments. For example the often issued Sor Por Gor-farmland, which allows a family to use the land for farming and inherit it within the family; but the land cannot be mortgaged or sold. Some land might be restricted for farming only, so you can not (legally) build anything on the land.
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