Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 1566

Travelers’ checks or tourist checks. They are checks created by banking custom. The bank draws them on its branches or the banks with which it deals and sells them to the customer. The latter must sign the check as beneficiary upon receiving it from the bank. The reason therefor. - Determination of the rights and obligations of both the bank and the customer. Its basis. The purchase agreement between them. - 298 - Obligation - The bank alone bears the consequences of improper payment of forged checks. The condition therefor. The absence of fault or negligence on the customer’s part. The standard of fault. An example concerning the customer’s fault and negligence in safeguarding tourist checks.