Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 1554

An appeal transfers the case in the state it was in before the appealed judgment was rendered, solely in respect of what was appealed. The basis for this and its import. - The scope of the appeal. Determined by the appellant’s claims set out in the appeal petition, not by what he claims again in his memoranda. - The female appellant’s restricting her claims in the appeal petition to a judgment for housing rent, a servant’s wage and an increase in the amount fixed for spousal maintenance in its two types, without a claim to establish her entitlement to maintenance from her husband. Its falling outside the scope of the appeal. The effect of this.