Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 382

The relationship of subordination on which a principal's liability for his subordinate's fault is based. Its nature. The latter's being subject to carrying out the principal's orders as to how he performs the work undertaken for the principal's account. Absence of that subjection. Its implication. Absence of the relationship of subordination. An example concerning the absence of liability of a female lessee of a vehicle for its loss while traveling in a convoy of vehicles in Iraq under the protection of the American army, and the absence in the case papers of anything indicating that this army was subject to the orders of the female lessee of the vehicle.