Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 1039

Provisions of law prescribing special limitation periods for certain rights. They must be construed narrowly so that they apply only to the very cases they encompass. - The five-year limitation period stipulated in Article 21 of the Civil Service Law. Its application is confined to amounts paid by the Government to an employee without entitlement. Amounts paid to the latter with entitlement, followed by the cessation of the basis of entitlement. They become an ordinary debt subject to a fifteen-year limitation period. The State’s rights against individuals and third parties’ rights against it. They are subject to the limitation rules stipulated in the Civil Code. Unless legislation provides otherwise.