Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 4486

Houses provided by the State to accommodate Kuwaiti families entitled to housing welfare are considered the State's private property. They are not dedicated to public use, and, pursuant to Article 21 of the Council of Ministers' decision concerning the housing welfare system, their ownership may be transferred to those to whom they were allocated under the conditions set out in that Article. A person allocated government housing is prohibited from disposing of it by sale if ownership of that dwelling has not passed to him, and his disposition thereof by sale is not effective against the State, which is entitled to recover it and evacuate it by administrative means, with cancellation of the allocation. - Sale of another's property. Is not effective against the owner and is not void as between the contracting seller and buyer. - 883 - Ownership