Judicial principle — Kuwait Court of Cassation

Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 1253

State of Kuwait · Pleadings — Part Two · Ministry of Justice — Court of Cassation — Technical Office

English translation of the principle

The judgment not addressing adjudication of the financial consequences of marriage and divorce, whether in its operative part or its reasons, because the parties did not raise that issue. The judgment concluding with judicial divorce while reserving the female respondent's financial rights arising from the marriage. Its meaning. No adjudication of those consequences. - Superfluous statements in a judgment concerning matters it was not requested to adjudicate do not acquire res judicata effect. The effect thereof. Inadmissibility of criticism directed against them.
Arabic original
عدم تعرض الحكم للفصل في مسألة الآثار المالية المترتبة على الزواج والطلاق سواء في منطوقه أو أسبابه لعدم طرح الخصوم تلك المسألة. انتهاء الحكم إلى التطليق مع احتفاظ المطعون ضدها بحقوقها المالية المترتبة على الزواج. مفاده. عدم الفصل بقضاء في تلك الآثار. - تزيد الحكم فيما لم يطلب منه القضاء فيه لا يحوز حجية الشيء المقضي به. أثر ذلك. عدم قبول النعي عليه.
Original Arabic judgment citations

(الطعن ٣/١٩٩٧ أحوال شخصية جلسة ١١/١٠/١٩٩٧ مج القسم الرابع المجلد الرابع ص٥٩٢)

Source: Court of Cassation legal principles collection — Pleadings — Part Two — Ministry of Justice — Court of Cassation — Technical Office. Printed page 232. PDF pages: 229.

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