Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 919

The appellant's exceeding the time limit for lodging the appeal and depositing its grounds. Necessary consequence: a ruling that the appeal is inadmissible as to form. What does not alter that. - Lawful service upon the appellant. Its effect: the contents of the notice of service have probative force unless the contrary is proved. - The process server's recording that he delivered a copy of the summons to appear to the appellant's brother, residing with him at the same residence, and that the brother signed the original owing to the appellant's absence. Valid service. Its effect: the period for appeal in cassation runs against him from the date of pronouncement of the judgment.