Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 2384

The urgent judgment staying enforcement of the official contract, the debt instrument in respect of which the travel-ban order was issued, owing to a dispute between the contracting parties over the amount of the debt. It does not alter the due date for payment of the debt agreed in the contract or negate its existence. Its effect is confined to merely staying compulsory enforcement procedures against the debtor. - A travel-ban order. It is not an enforcement instrument. Its valid issuance. Its continuation is not affected by a stay of enforcement of the debt instrument in respect of which that order was issued owing to a dispute over its amount. The reason therefor: for its issuance, the legislator did not require - 411 - Commercial that the right of the creditor requesting the order be ascertained in amount, being satisfied with the requirement that it be certain in existence and due for payment.