Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 698

Lineage to a deceased person is established only within an action concerning a right or property. The reason for that. - A judgment against a deceased person, like a judgment against an absent person, is permissible only against a present adversary, who is either an expressly designated adversary or a constructive adversary. - The expressly designated adversary. He is an agent of the absent person, and the constructive adversary is the person present on behalf of the deceased where what is claimed against the deceased is necessarily a cause of what the present person claims or a condition - 451 - Personal Status thereof.