Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 284

Provisions prescribing limitation periods for certain rights. They must be narrowly construed and apply only to the cases specifically included therein. Matters outside them revert to the general rule prescribed in Article 438 of the Civil Code, and their limitation period is fifteen years. That period applies to every obligation unless the law stipulates another period. - The absence from the law of a special provision on the limitation of rights belonging to the entities it specified in the legislation by which it addressed the company shares crisis. Its effect. Their limitation period is fifteen years. - The prescribed period for barring the hearing of an action. Its interruption by the debtor's express or implied acknowledgment of the creditor's right.