Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 1203

The scope of the action is determined by the judicial demand commencing the litigation and the incidental claims submitted therein. - Determining the scope of the action. Within the authority of the court of merits. The condition therefor. - What matters in determining a litigant's claims is the relief he requests be adjudged in his favour and what the scope of that claim necessarily and factually includes. The court is not bound by the literal wording in which it was formulated, but rather by what the litigant intended thereby in accordance with the established facts presented. Example.