Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 2561

Extinctive prescription is interrupted by a judicial claim, even before a court lacking jurisdiction. A final judgment dismissing it. Its effect: removal of its effect in interrupting prescription, treating that effect as nonexistent, and continuation of the prescription that had begun before it was brought. - The effect that the legislature attaches to a particular legal act. Its existence depends on that act originally complying with the requirements stipulated by law for it. Its implication. Interruption of prescription resulting from a judicial claim. Its condition. The validity of that claim in form and substance, which is established by a final judgment being rendered therein. Termination of the judicial claim otherwise. Its effect. Removal of its interruptive effect and continuation, without interruption, of the prescription that began before it.