Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 2906
State of Kuwait · Commercial and Labour — Volume 9 · Ministry of Justice — Court of Cassation — Technical Office
English translation of the principle
The general rule is that a settlement is indivisible. The consequence thereof. The invalidity or annulment of part of the settlement entails the invalidity of the entire contract or its invalidity. Its condition. That neither the wording of the contract nor the circumstances indicate that the contracting parties regarded the parts of the settlement as independent and separate from one another. - The right to invoke invalidity:-
Arabic original
الأصل أن الصلح لا يتجزأ. مؤدى ذلك. بطلان جزء من الصلح أو إبطاله يقتضي بطلان العقد كله أو بطلانه. شرطه. ألا تتضمن عبارات العقد أو من الظروف أن المتعاقدين اعتبرا أجزاء الصلح مستقلة ومنفصلة عن بعضها. - حق التمسك بالبطلان:-Original Arabic judgment citations
(الطعنان ٥٨، ٦٤/٨٩ تجاري جلسة ٣٠/١٠/١٩٨٩ مج القسم الثاني - المجلد الأول ص ٧٢٩)
Source: Court of Cassation legal principles collection — Commercial and Labour — Volume 9 — Ministry of Justice — Court of Cassation — Technical Office. Printed page 495. PDF pages: 495.
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