Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 421

Rules concerning the admissibility of an action for li'an and denial of lineage. Some are contained in Kuwaiti law. Matters for which there is no provision. Recourse is made to the well-established position in the school of Imam Malik. Articles 176, 177, 178 of Law 51/1984 concerning Personal Status. Example. - Li'an according to Malik's school may only be undertaken by a husband who accuses his wife of adultery without four witnesses. Exemption from the prescribed punishment for false accusation of adultery. Its condition. His having seen his wife in the act of adultery. Failure of that condition. His being regarded as a false accuser.