Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 2749

Cases in which ownership does not pass merely by sale. The seller must do everything necessary for its transfer to the purchaser and refrain from acts that prevent this or make it difficult. - Ownership of immovable property passes only by registration. Implication thereof. The purchaser of immovable property under an unregistered contract is considered an ordinary creditor in respect of the personal obligations incumbent upon the seller and arising from the sale contract. - 508 - Obligation - The judgment basing its ruling on the absence from the papers of anything indicating that the respondents, the sellers, failed to perform their obligation to transfer ownership of the property sold to the appellant, the purchaser, despite their established failure to attend the Real Estate Registration Department and sign the final contract. Defective reasoning requiring its cassation.