Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 1186

Disputes concerning a gift contract after the Civil Code entered into force. Jurisdiction over them belongs to the civil circuits, not the personal status circuits. Contravention of this: an error in the application of the law. - Violation of jurisdictional rules. Does not render the judgment void, but constitutes a violation of the law. - Res judicata effect. Attaches provisionally to conclusive judgments even if they are appealable. Suspension of - 549 - Personal Status that effect upon their appeal and until the appeal is adjudicated; it returns upon their affirmation and disappears upon their reversal. The effect of this: no court is bound by that effect so long as no judgment dismissing the appeal has been issued before it renders its judgment in the action. - 550 - Personal Status Eleventh Endowment