Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 4062

The Real Estate Registration Law under Decree No. 5 of 1959. After its issuance, ownership does not transfer between the parties concerned or in relation to others except by registration. The legislature granted the inhabitants a transitional period of one year for instruments concerning dispositions preceding its issuance. Its effect. No deed or instrument is admissible to prove the root of title or a right in rem unless its date was authenticated or it was certified before the notary public in Kuwait or the Sharia courts before 26/4/1960. Article 14 of the said Law.