Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 350

Prescription as a ground for the extinction of personal rights that have remained unenforced for a period of time. Its adoption by the legislature. Its reasons. Respect for settled situations or reliance on a presumption of payment. - Extinctive prescription. The general rule is the long period of fifteen years. The exception. A special provision prescribing a longer or shorter period applies only to the cases covered by such provisions. - 75 - Law - Claiming an unemployment allowance after seventeen years have elapsed from the termination of the employment relationship. Its effect. The action is barred by prescription. - The absence in the regulations of a specific time limit for claiming does not preclude application of the time limits prescribed by law for hearing the action. The judgment’s departure from this. This vitiates it.