Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 2241

Cause in contracting. It is the purpose the contracting party seeks by assuming his obligation. The purpose of contracting need not be stated in the debt instrument. The court may infer it from the facts of the case. - The inducing motive prompting a contracting party to contract. It is taken into account in the cause. The condition: the other contracting party knows or ought to have known it. - Signing bills of exchange in blank without a loan in respect of which they would secure the beneficiary's right. Establishment that the motive for signing them, in light of the circumstances and context of their execution, was withdrawal of a case filed against the woman obligated - 391 - Commercial therein and her intense desire to avoid exposure to criminal punishment. The consequence. They were signed without a debt and without cause. Its effect. Their nullity for absence of cause. - Subject matter of the contract:-