Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 260

A judgment rendered in the absence of the person required to take the decisive oath. Its operative part must be served upon that person. Article 68 of the Law of Evidence. The provision concerning service is unqualified, without requiring personal service. Its effect: recourse must be had to the general rules of service. The judgment’s requirement that service be made on the litigant personally. A particularisation of the general provision and a restriction of its unqualified terms, requiring its cassation. An example. - 388 - Procedure