Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 2214

Abandonment of property entailing the barring of an action from being heard under the Majalla of Judicial Provisions. Its nature. Merely leaving and neglecting the property and exercising no right over it, however long the time, without anyone interfering with it, usurping it, and denying its owner’s right, does not prevent an action concerning it from being heard. Its necessary consequence. Prescription leading to the barring of the action from being heard begins not from the date of usurpation, but from the date the person whose right was usurped learns of its occurrence and refrains from resisting it through an action for ownership or compensation. The basis thereof.