Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 2886

Service of judicial documents. The rule is certain knowledge thereof by the person served through delivery of the copy to that person himself. Sufficiency of presumed knowledge through service at the domicile and of constructive knowledge. Its cases. They are exhaustively enumerated. Analogy to them or expansive interpretation thereof is impermissible. - Service on the tenant by affixing. An exception to the general rules for service of judicial documents. Its rationale. - Service upon the parties to the action. Verification thereof. A matter for the trial court. The condition therefor. That it be supported by the case documents. - Directing service of the statement of claim to the tenant at the leased premises. Its completion by affixing because the premises are closed. It constitutes the proceedings between the parties. Article 25 of Decree-Law 35 of 1978, as amended by Law 8 of 1994. - Service on the tenant of the judgment referring the case to the commercial circuit. Its completion at the competent police station because the leased premises, which he adopted as his elected domicile, were closed, and his notification by registered letter through the post. Its validity. Article 9 of the Civil Procedure Law.