Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 302

Clear and unambiguous provisions of law. It is impermissible to adopt what contradicts them or to restrict them. The reason therefor. - Multiple guarantors for a single debt subject to the provisions of Law 11 of 1993, as amended, concerning the State’s purchase of certain debts and the manner of their collection, and its amendments. Its effect. Distribution of the amount of the shortfall in the indebtedness - 398 - Civil Procedure among them; a guarantor is not considered liable for the entire debt or a guarantor for the rest of his fellow guarantors, and the shortfall is distributed equally among them after recourse against the debtor. The condition thereof. Absence of an agreement predating the State’s purchase of the indebtedness providing otherwise.