Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 3422

Service of judicial documents. The general rule is certain knowledge thereof by the person served, through delivery of the copy to that person personally. Reliance on presumed knowledge through service at the domicile and on constructive knowledge. Its cases. They are exhaustively enumerated. Analogy to them or expansive interpretation of them is impermissible. - Service on the lessee by posting. An exception to the general rules for service of judicial documents. Its rationale. - Service on the litigants in the action. Verification thereof. A matter of fact. Its condition. That it have support in the case papers. - Directing service of the statement of claim to the lessee at the leased premises. Its completion by posting because the premises are closed. The proceedings are thereby constituted between the parties. Article 25 of Decree-Law 35 of 1978, as amended by Law 8 of 1994. - Service on the lessee of the judgment referring the case to the Commercial Circuit. Its completion at the competent police station because the leased premises, which he designated as his elected domicile, are closed, and notifying him by registered mail. Its validity. Article 9 of the Civil Procedure Law. - 674 - Lease