Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 1772

Natural obligation. Its suitability as the basis for a civil obligation. What is meant thereby. The debtor’s undertaking of a natural obligation which he knows he is not compelled to perform. The obligation is valid, and the debtor becomes bound by a civil obligation which he is compelled to perform. Article 283 Civil Code. - The female appellant’s institution of the action on the basis that a natural obligation arose against the respondent company after it was adjudged that the right to claim against it had lapsed by the passage of time pursuant to the provisions of the Private Sector Labour Law. Her reliance on the provisions of the Civil Code. Its consequence. Subject-matter jurisdiction lies with the civil circuit, not the labour circuit. Contravention thereof. An error in the application of the law requiring cassation of the judgment. The law applicable to the obligation: