Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 4540

A sale with a right of redemption is the seller’s retention, for a specified period, of the right to recover the thing sold from the purchaser in return for repayment to him of the price and sale expenses. Its implication. The contract is deemed a loan secured by a possessory pledge. The consequence thereof. All provisions governing possessory pledges apply to it, including the invalidity of an agreement to take ownership of the real property sold, for the protection of the seller. Article 508, Civil Code.