Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 2368

Actions arising from a maritime carriage contract. Their extinction upon the lapse of one year from the date of delivery of the goods or the date on which delivery should have taken place. The running of limitation is interrupted by a demand by letter accompanied by an acknowledgment - 457 - Obligation of receipt, by settlement negotiations or by appointment of an expert to assess damage, in addition to the grounds for interruption of limitation provided in the Civil Code. - A plea of limitation before the trial court. It requires the court to examine its conditions, including the period and any interruption affecting it; the court may, even of its own motion, determine that limitation has been interrupted if its cause exists. - Interruption of the period prescribed for barring the hearing of an action. Its effect. A new period equivalent to the first begins from the time the effect resulting from the ground of interruption ends. The judgment's ruling that the action was time-barred on the basis that the correspondence and negotiations between the parties had no effect in interrupting limitation and could not constitute a ground therefor. A violation of the law and an error in its application requiring its cassation.