Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 3222

An assignment of a right intended to discharge a debt owed by the assignor. Payment in kind by the right assigned to him. Its effect: transfer of the assigned right from the patrimony of the debtor-assignor to the patrimony of the creditor-assignee in discharge of a prior obligation between them, and the treatment of this as a novation of the debt by changing its subject matter. - Novation of a debt by changing its subject matter. Its effect. Extinction of the original obligation and creation of a new obligation in its place. Transfer of the personal suretyship with it. Its condition. The surety’s consent. A judgment contravening this. A violation of the law and an error in its application requiring its cassation. Example.