Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 2367

Interruption of the period prescribed for barring the hearing of an action. Its grounds. The 2 Articles 448, Civil Code. - Interruption of the period prescribed for barring the hearing of an action. Its effect. Article 450, Civil Code. - Grounds for interrupting limitation. They are exhaustively enumerated. Other grounds may not be relied upon to interrupt limitation unless the law provides otherwise. - Interruption of the running of limitation in actions arising from a contract of carriage by sea. Its cases. Article 201 of the Maritime Commerce Law. - Towage and pilotage operations. Actions arising from them are time-barred upon the lapse of 1 year from the date these operations end. Article 222 of the Maritime Commercial Law. Their subjection to the grounds for interrupting limitation stipulated in the Civil Code. The reason for this. - The period prescribed for barring the hearing of an action. It does not run whenever an impediment exists making it impossible for the creditor to claim his right, even if it is a moral impediment. The party invoking the moral impediment must furnish evidence of it. - The limitation defence. It produces effects only in favour of the person invoking it. The reason for this. Article 452/1, Civil Code. - A joint and several debtor's invocation of limitation in respect of another joint and several debtor to the extent of that debtor's share. Its effect does not extend to the other debtors who did not invoke it. Article 345, Civil Code.