Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 2170

The preferential lien for sums due to the contractor and engineer over buildings and structures. Invoking it against third parties, giving effect to it, determining its rank and enforcing it against the real property encumbered by it. Its condition. Providing third parties with the opportunity to learn of it. The means of doing so is inscription. - Dispositions creating and declaring accessory real rights in immovable property and final judgments establishing the same. Their registration by way of inscription. Inscription procedures: Articles 9, 18 of Law 5/1959. - The provisions governing inscription of real property dispositions and judgments establishing any of them. Are intended to protect real estate credit. Their relation to public policy.