Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 2716

Annulment or nullity of a contract. Its effect. Restoring the contracting parties to the position they occupied at the time of contracting. Impossibility thereof. Permissibility of ordering equivalent performance. Article 187, Civil Code. A request for restitution as an effect of nullity where restitution is feasible. The judgment must grant it even if the party invoking it has not requested an order for equivalent performance. A judgment contravening this. Requires its partial cassation. - The legislature's equal treatment of nullity and annulment of a contract in respect of restoring the contracting parties to the position they occupied at the time of the contract. - Annulment of the contract:-