Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 1818

Payment discharging liability. Its validity requires that it be made to the creditor or his representative. Its being made to someone other than either of them. The creditor must ratify this payment, derive a benefit from it, or the payment must have been made in good faith to a person appearing to be the creditor. - The respondent company’s payment of the amount of blood money to the heirs in whose favour judgment was rendered, without the beneficiaries of the mandatory bequest being among them. This payment is not regarded as discharging its liability to pay the shares therein of the heirs under the appellant’s guardianship, who neither ratified this payment nor derived any benefit from it. Departure from this. A contravention of the law and an error in its application. - 348 - Obligation