Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 1193

The subject matter of an obligation being of a known amount when it arises within the meaning of Article 110 of the Commercial Code. Its nature. Determination of its amount must rest on fixed bases, and the judiciary must have no discretion in its assessment. The implication thereof. The amount claimed as compensation is subject to the judge's assessment and is therefore not of a known amount when the obligation arises; interest accordingly runs from the date of the final judgment assessing it. A judgment's contravention thereof. An error in applying the law.