Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 658

Duress invalidating consent exists only where the coerced contracting party is threatened with grave, imminent danger to his person or property, or other means of pressure are used that he is unable to withstand or escape. - The female appellant’s contention that her representative was subjected to means of pressure that prompted him to sign the disputed release to avert the administrative authority’s threat not to pay the amounts due included in the final payment certificate. Does not constitute duress entailing invalidity of the transaction. The reason for that: the possibility of escaping it by judicially claiming the full amounts due, together with compensation if warranted. An example. - Securing the administration against contracting with it:-