Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 2216

Possession of real property satisfying its legal requirements for 15 years. Its being deemed a legal presumption of the possessor's ownership. A successor may add the duration of the predecessor's possession of the real property to the duration of the successor's possession to complete the legally prescribed period. - Ascertaining possession of real property and assessing the evidence and presumptions leading to the existence of possession in both its material and intentional elements as evidence of ownership or its absence. Matters of fact within the independent competence of the court of merits. Its condition. Its adoption of the expert's report. Its condition. Its confidence in it and conviction regarding the reasons on which it was based. Accepting or rejecting witnesses' statements. Dependent on the court of merits believing them and having confidence in them, and no one has authority over it regarding what witnesses state before it, provided its inference is reasonable. No fault attaches to it for accepting any evidence of which it is convinced, provided that evidence is among the legal means of proof. Example concerning interruption of the limitation period by taking expropriation measures.