Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 847

Invalidity of a contract concluded by a non-Kuwaiti owing to the prohibition contained in the Commercial Code or any other legislation. Does not preclude the right to claim his rights on another legal basis. - The appellant may change the cause of the subject matter of the original claim and add to it. Article 144/3 of the Law of Procedure. - Invalidity of the contract. Its import. Its annihilation from the time of its conclusion, so that every effect of its performance ceases if it has been performed, and everything must be restored to its original state. The effect thereof. Each contracting party recovers what he gave. Impossibility of restitution in kind. The judge may order equivalent performance. Article 187 of the Civil Code.