Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 282

Provisions prescribing prescription for certain rights. They must be interpreted narrowly and apply only to the specific cases they encompass. Matters outside them are governed by the general rule prescribed in Article 438 of the Civil Code, and their prescription period is fifteen years. That period applies to every obligation unless the law prescribes another period. - The absence in the law of a special provision concerning prescription of the rights belonging to the entities it specified in the legislation by which it addressed the company shares crisis. Its effect. Their prescription after fifteen years. - The period prescribed for barring the hearing of an action. Its interruption by the debtor's express or implied acknowledgment of the creditor's right.