Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 2041

Laws relating to prescription. Their application, from their entry into force, to every uncompleted prescription. The old law governs the period of prescription that ran under it in respect of determining the moment when it began, how it is calculated, and any causes of interruption or suspension affecting it. - Barring an action from being heard. The requisite period is, as a general rule, fifteen years. - The plea that an action may not be heard owing to the passage of time. Its application to an ownership action. Its condition: the owner's abandonment of it for fifteen years while grounds for bringing it exist through another's taking possession of it and denying its owner's right. Article 1660 of the Majalla of Judicial Provisions. - 389 - Obligation - The excuse preventing the hearing of an action owing to the passage of time. It is an excuse of the kind recognized by Sharia. Its nature. Excuses not reaching that degree of hardship. They are not considered an excuse preventing the limitation period from running.