Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 2627

The employer and the subcontractor. No contractual relationship connects them. The latter may claim from the former what he owes to the main contractor by an indirect action. He also has a direct action and a preferential right against him to spare him competition from the main contractor's creditors. Articles 682, 683 of the Civil Code. The condition for that. The employer's debt to the main contractor must arise from the contract for works, and upon institution of the action he is precluded from paying the main contractor.