Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 5032

Limitation as a ground for extinguishing personal rights where a period has elapsed without their satisfaction. Its adoption by the legislature. Its reasons. Respect for settled situations or acceptance of a presumption of payment. - Extinctive limitation. The general rule is the long period, namely fifteen years. The exception. A special provision prescribing a longer or shorter period applies only to the cases included in those provisions. - A claim for unemployment assistance after seventeen years have elapsed from the termination of the employment relationship. Its effect. The action is barred by limitation. - The absence of a specified period for claiming in the regulations does not preclude application of the periods prescribed by law for hearing an action. A judgment’s contravention thereof. It vitiates it.