Judicial principle — Kuwait Court of Cassation

Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 1293

State of Kuwait · Pleadings — Part Three · Ministry of Justice — Court of Cassation — Technical Office

English translation of the principle

Custody of a minor under the Maliki school. Its termination upon puberty. The effect of such puberty. - The law’s failure to specify a particular age for puberty. Its implication. The judge may assess it. The condition for this. The judgment’s omission of an examination of the minor to ascertain the natural signs of puberty, and its treating the boy’s not having reached his fourteenth year as a basis for considering him still of an age for women’s custody. Vitiates it.
Arabic original
حضانة الصغير في المذهب المالكي. انتهاؤها بالبلوغ. أثر هذا البلوغ. - خلو القانون من تحديد سن معين للبلوغ. مؤداه. للقاضي أن يقدره. شرط ذلك. خلو الحكم من مناظرة الصغير للتحقق من العلامات الطبيعية للبلوغ واعتباره عدم بلوغ الولد الرابعة عشر من عمره سنداً لاعتبار أنه لازال في سن حضانة النساء. يعيبه.
Original Arabic judgment citations

(الطعن ١٢/٢٠٠١ أحوال شخصية جلسة ٢/٦/٢٠٠١ مج القسم الرابع المجلد الرابع ص٢٤١)

Source: Court of Cassation legal principles collection — Pleadings — Part Three — Ministry of Justice — Court of Cassation — Technical Office. Printed page 203. PDF pages: 200.

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