Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 3998

Multiple sureties for a single debt subject to the provisions of amended Law 41 of 1993 concerning the State's purchase of certain debts and the manner of their collection, and its amendments. The effect. The amount of the shortfall in the indebtedness is apportioned among them; a surety is not regarded as liable for the entire debt or as a surety for the rest of his fellow sureties, and the shortfall is apportioned equally among them after recourse against the debtor. The condition for that. Absence of an agreement predating the State's purchase of the indebtedness providing otherwise.