Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 188

Summary: - Articles 9 and 10 of Law No. 1 of 1993 concerning the Protection of Public Funds. - Property, papers, or effects encompass everything capable of monetary valuation and anything possessing moral or non-material value. An example concerning metal plates. The plea denying their character as property is a manifestly invalid legal defence. The judgment is not faulted for disregarding it. Rule: The expression “property, papers, effects, or other things” in Article 9 of Law No. 1 of 1993 concerning the Protection of Public Funds, to which Article Ten of the same Law refers in this respect, was formulated in general terms whose meaning encompasses everything capable of monetary valuation and anything possessing moral or non-material value. The challenged judgment established—relying on the witnesses’ statements, whose proper basis in the papers the appellant does not dispute—that the seized items consisted of seven metal plates, each valued at five dinars, confirming that they had monetary value. Accordingly, the appellant’s aforementioned defence in this regard is no more than a manifestly invalid legal defence far removed from correctness, and the judgment is not faulted for disregarding it.