Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 449

The necessity of applying the Personal Status Law to the exclusion of any other in matters of marriage, as a special law. For the conclusion of marriage, an offer by the wife's guardian and acceptance by the husband or those acting in their stead suffice. The requirement that both spouses possess capacity to marry in terms of reason and puberty. Equal treatment of the insane person and the feeble-minded person with respect to capacity to marry. The necessity that the marriage contract of either be concluded by his guardian of the person according to the order of inheritance. Multiple guardians of equal degree. Its implication. The court's selection of the most suitable among them. Absence of an agnatic relative or guardian of the person recognized by law. Its necessary consequence. Guardianship by the judge, as holder of general guardianship, acting on behalf of the ruler.