Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 2952

Houses provided by the State to accommodate Kuwaiti families entitled to housing welfare constitute private property of the State. They are not dedicated to public benefit, and, pursuant to Article 21 of the Council of Ministers' Resolution concerning the Housing Welfare System, their ownership may be transferred to those to whom they were allocated subject to the conditions set out in that Article. A person allocated government housing is prohibited from disposing of it by sale if ownership of that dwelling has not passed to him, and his disposition of it by sale is not effective against the State, which is entitled to recover it and have it vacated by administrative means, with cancellation of the allocation. - 575 - Sale - Sale of another's property. It is not effective against the owner and is not invalid as between the seller and purchaser.