Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 2206

Provisions prescribing limitation periods for certain rights. Must be interpreted narrowly and apply only to the cases specifically included in them. Matters outside them are governed by the general rule prescribed in Article 438 of the Civil Code, and their limitation period is fifteen years. That period applies to every obligation unless the law prescribes another period. - Absence from the law of a special provision governing limitation of the rights belonging to the entities it specified in the legislation by which it addressed the company shares crisis. Its effect. Those rights become time-barred after fifteen years. - The prescribed period for the non-hearing of an action. Is interrupted by the debtor's express or implied acknowledgment of the creditor's right.