Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 153

Laws relating to prescription. Their application from their effective date to every prescription period not yet completed. The old law governs the portion of the prescription period that ran under it as regards determining the moment it began, the manner of calculating it, and any grounds for interruption or suspension that affected it. - Barring the hearing of an action. The period required, as a general rule, is 15 years. - The defense that an action may not be heard owing to lapse of time. Its application to an ownership action. Its condition: the owner's leaving it unpursued for 15 years despite the existence of grounds for it, consisting of another's taking possession of it and denying its owner's right. - 366 - Civil Procedure. Article 1660 of the Majalla of Judicial Rules. - The excuse preventing an action from being barred from hearing owing to lapse of time. It must be an excuse recognized by Sharia. Its nature. Excuses that do not reach that degree of hardship. They are not considered an excuse preventing the prescription period from running.