Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 145

The general rule is that testimony must be direct. - Testimony by common repute admissible to prove a husband's harm to his wife. Its meaning: testifying to something - 346 - Personal Status that the witness neither saw with his own eyes nor heard himself, but which he repeatedly heard from a group whose collusion in falsehood is inconceivable, and which became well-known and widespread, with repeated reports reaching him and their truth becoming established in his heart; or which two upright men, or one upright man and two upright women, report to him without being asked to testify. - Testimony by common repute. It is original testimony, distinguished by its criteria and grounds, and has its own probative force. Its fabrication from hearsay testimony, which is testimony whose source is the litigant in whose favor testimony is given himself. Example of hearsay testimony that cannot properly be relied upon.