Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 4269

The distinction between property owned by the State as public property and its private property. Its criterion: dedication of the former to public benefit. Houses allocated for housing welfare constitute the State’s private property. Effect: permissibility of transferring their ownership to those to whom they were allocated. - The State’s private property. Its subjection to private law. Consequence: any co-owner in undivided ownership—in a government house whose ownership has been transferred to its allottee—may apply to the court for its partition in kind or by liquidation. Article 836, Civil Code. Example.