Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 867

Action for compensation for preventing the possessor of real property from possessing it. The defendant therein is anyone who commits a positive act upon the property resulting in such prevention. It is sufficient that the possessor’s possession be physical - 166 - Procedure and current, such that his control is actually connected with the property and exists at the time of prevention, placing the person preventing possession in the position of one taking the law into his own hands without resorting to the courts. Example of standing in the defendant for changing a chalet’s lock with the intention of preventing possession thereof.