Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 220

Contract agency. Its nature: a contract whereby a person undertakes, on a continuing basis within a specified area of activity, to seek to promote and negotiate the conclusion of transactions in the principal's interest, or to conclude them and sign and perform contracts in the principal's name and for his account. He is considered his representative in proceedings brought by or against him within the agency area. Articles 271 and 276 of the Commercial Code. An example of a judgment that based its ruling on the respondent's lack of capacity in the proceedings because it failed to appreciate the significance of a document signed by the respondent company's sales manager, which renders it defective in inference.