Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 3496

The employer and the subcontractor. No contract binds them. The latter may claim from the former what he owes to the main contractor by an indirect action. He also has a direct action and a preferential right against him to spare him competition with - 688 - Contract for works the main contractor's creditors. Articles 682, 683, Civil Code. The condition for this. That the employer's debt to the main contractor arise from the contract for works; upon the action being brought, he is precluded from paying the main contractor.