Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 2607

Provisions prescribing limitation for certain rights. They must be interpreted narrowly and apply only to the specific cases they encompass. Matters outside them are governed by the general rule prescribed in Article 438 of the Civil Code, and their limitation period is fifteen years. That period applies to every obligation unless the law prescribes another period. - The absence from the law of a special provision governing limitation of the rights belonging to the entities it identified in the legislation by which it addressed the company shares crisis. Effect thereof. Their limitation period is fifteen years. - The period prescribed for barring the hearing of an action. Its interruption by the debtor's express or implied acknowledgment of the creditor's right.