Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 71

Agency, general or special. The rule is that it confers standing on the agent only to undertake the matters specified therein. The agent’s obligation to submit a detailed account of all its acts, supported by documents. This obligation does not lapse except by exemption from the principal or where the nature of the transaction or the circumstances require such exemption. The agent bears the burden of proving those circumstances. The court of merits may infer them without review. - The female appellant’s contention that she handed over the amounts she withdrew from the respondent’s account before she was officially informed of the revocation of the power of attorney, and that the marital relationship subsisted at the time of withdrawal, constituting an impediment to submitting a statement of account and a moral impediment to obtaining written evidence of his receipt of these amounts. The judgment ordering her to pay the amount she withdrew without ascertaining her knowledge of the termination of the agency. This vitiates it and requires its cassation. - 16 - Procedure