Judicial principle — Kuwait Court of Cassation

Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 3290

State of Kuwait · Civil Matters — Volume 11 · Ministry of Justice — Court of Cassation — Technical Office

English translation of the principle

The lessor's obligation to enable the lessee to enjoy the leased property in a condition fit for the full enjoyment intended by the lease. - Rent is in return for enjoyment. - The lessor. His obligation to warrant against his own physical or legal interference with the lessee. The implication of this. His abstention from every physical or legal act resulting in failure to obtain the enjoyment intended by the lease or impairment of it. - 646 - Lease The reason for this. Whoever owes a warranty must refrain from interference. The challenged judgment's contravention of this and its treating the appellant as being in breach of her obligations for failing to pay rent and ordering her eviction from the leased premises despite her not enjoying them. A contravention of the law requiring its cassation.
Arabic original
التزام المؤجر بتمكين المستأجر من الانتفاع بالمأجور بحالة صالحة للانتفاع به كل الانتفاع المقصود من الإيجار. - الأجرة مقابل الانتفاع. - المؤجر. التزامه بضمان تعرضه الشخصي المادي أو القانوني للمستأجر. مؤدى ذلك. امتناعه عن كل فعل مادي أو قانوني يترتب عليه عدم استيفاء المنفعة المقصودة من الإيجار أو الإخلال بها. - 646 - إيجار علة ذلك. من وجب عليه الضمان امتنع عليه التعرض. مخالفة الحكم المطعون فيه ذلك واعتباره المستأنفة مخلة بالتزاماتها لعدم سدادها الأجرة وقضائه بطردها من العين المؤجرة رغم عدم انتفاعها بها. مخالفة للقانون توجب تمييزه.
Original Arabic judgment citations

(الطعن ٩٣٤/٢٠٠٨ تجاري جلسة ٦/١٠/٢٠٠٩ مجلة القضاء والقانون - س ٣٧ ج ٣ ص ٤٢)

Source: Court of Cassation legal principles collection — Civil Matters — Volume 11 — Ministry of Justice — Court of Cassation — Technical Office. PDF pages: 646–647.

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