Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 156

State ownership of every ownerless immovable. Article 878 of the Civil Code. Its application to land which no individual had previously owned before the effective date of this Code by any means of acquiring ownership, including possession. Establishment that the immovable had previously been acquired by long acquisitive prescription before that date. It remains owned by the possessor. Failure of fifteen years of possession to elapse at the time the Code took effect. Its effect. The possessor may not rely on acquisition of ownership by prescription, even if the period is completed after it took effect.