Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 2095

Action for unjust enrichment. When it becomes time-barred. - Plea of limitation. Its effect. The court of merits must examine its legal conditions, suspension and interruption. - The prescribed period for barring the hearing of an action. It is interrupted by a judicial demand even if the action is brought before a court lacking jurisdiction. - Dismissal or inadmissibility of an action capable of interrupting limitation. Its effect. Its interruptive effect ceases and is deemed never to have existed, and the period that had begun before its filing continues. - Criminal proceedings for felonies. They lapse upon the passage of ten years from the date of the crime. How this period is interrupted. - The judgment's calculation of the commencement of limitation from the date of the appellate judgment ruling that the reason for staying the civil action had ceased, although that judgment merely declares the cessation of the reason for the stay and has no effect on the commencement of the period running for limitation. Error in applying the law. - 384 - Procedure