Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 1391

Duress that vitiates intention. Dread induced without right, under whose sway a person falls through the use of a means of pressure to achieve an unlawful purpose. Article 156 of the Civil Code. - The defence that a blank cheque was lost, that the opponent found it, forged its particulars, and falsely reported its drawer for the offence of issuing a cheque without funds in order to compel him to sign an acknowledgment of receipt of a debt contrary to the truth, and his adducing circumstantial evidence thereof. The judgment’s failure to address this defence and that circumstantial evidence. Inadequacy.