Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 13

Determination of each judicial body's subject-matter jurisdiction. The determining factor is the relief sought by the plaintiff in the action. - Jurisdiction of the Personal Status Chamber. Confined to disputes whose resolution requires application of the Personal Status Law. Article 345 of Law 51 of 1984. - Defining the scope of the action as invalidation of the relinquishment by the grandfather of the minors under the guardianship of the first respondent of his right to use two plots he leased during his lifetime, because it deprives the minors of their share in his estate. It does not concern personal status. Necessary consequence: lack of - 319 - Personal Status subject-matter jurisdiction of the Personal Status Chamber to hear it.