Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 1140

The original claim. The appellant may change its cause and add to it while retaining its subject matter. The basis for this. Article 144/3, Civil Procedure. - Annulment or nullity of a contract. Its effect. Restoring the contracting parties to the position they occupied upon contracting. Impossibility of this. Permissibility of ordering equivalent performance. Article 187, Civil Code. - Changing the cause of the action for the first time before the Court of Appeal. Legally permissible. A judgment's contravention of this. Renders it defective. Example.