Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 2976

The provision of Article 20 of the Agreement on Legal and Judicial Cooperation between the State of Kuwait and the Arab Republic of Egypt. Its import. The competent judicial authority in the State where recognition - 509 - Commercial of the judgment or its enforcement is sought is confined to verifying the conditions stipulated therein without addressing the merits. The effect thereof. A plea that the right to invoke the enforceable instrument has lapsed by passage of time, raised before the court competent to order its enforcement. Inadmissible. The rationale therefor. - Five-year limitation:-