Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 812

Determining the subject-matter jurisdiction of each judicial body. The determining consideration is what the plaintiff seeks in his action. - A natural obligation. Its capacity to constitute the basis of a civil obligation. What is meant thereby. The debtor’s undertaking of a natural obligation which he knows he cannot be compelled to perform. The obligation is valid, and the debtor becomes bound by a civil obligation which he can be compelled to perform. Article 283 of the Civil Code. - The appellant’s bringing the action on the basis that a natural obligation arose on the part of the respondent company after it had been adjudged that the right to claim against it under the provisions of the Private Sector Labour Law had lapsed by the passage of time. Her reliance on the provisions of the Civil Code. Its import. Subject-matter jurisdiction vests in the civil circuit, not the labour circuit. Departure therefrom. An error in the application of law requiring cassation of the judgment.