Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 1384

The judicial demand. Its nature. A procedure directed to the court against the defendant, by which the scope of the action is determined for the parties or the judge, and the court, when determining it, must not depart therefrom. - A debtor owing multiple debts of the same kind to a single creditor. He may choose the debt he wishes to discharge by deduction from them or by setting them off against a corresponding debt owed to him by the creditor, unless an agreement or a provision of law prevents him from doing so. - The judgment's exceeding the parties' claims presented before the court of first instance and departing from the scope of the action. A violation of the law requiring its cassation.