Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 494

The legislature's reliance on the fact of registration of the real estate sale contract to establish the pre-emptor's knowledge that the sale has occurred and the commencement of the period for requesting acquisition by pre-emption. Its import. By that registration, it irrebuttably presumes the knowledge - 99 - Civil Procedure of the pre-emptor of the sale, without requiring his actual knowledge or obliging the parties to the sale, after registration, to announce it through outward indications and manifestations evidencing it. Its effect. The seller's continued appearance as owner after registration of the contract and the purchaser's concealment. Not regarded as a stratagem to defeat pre-emption. The reason: it does not obstruct a right established for the pre-emptor. - Registration of the expropriation decision:-