Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 303

Clear and plain statutory provisions. It is impermissible to adopt anything contrary to them or to restrict them. The reason therefor. - Multiple guarantors for a single debt subject to the provisions of Law 11 of 1993, as amended, concerning the State’s purchase of certain indebtedness and the manner of its collection, and its amendments. Its effect. The amount of the shortfall in the indebtedness is apportioned among them; a guarantor is not considered liable for the entire debt or a guarantor for the remainder of his fellow guarantors, and the shortfall is distributed equally among them after recourse against the debtor. The condition for this. The absence of an agreement predating the State’s purchase of the indebtedness providing otherwise.