A claimant filed a case against defendants before the court. He requested the court to dismiss the contract by which he had ceded his share in an inheritance to the first three defendants. He said that the contracts were customary ones.

The court dismissed the case.

The claimant appealed the ruling before the court of appeal. The court upheld the appealed ruling.

The claimant appealed the ruling before the court of cassation. The court repealed the appealed ruling and referred the case to the court of appeal.

The defendants argued that the claimant did not have the right to submit his case. They said that the claimant had submitted his case 15 years after the singing of the contracts.

The court said that this argument was valid. The court said that the case documents revealed that the claimant had failed to submit his case within the legal deadline according to Article 183 of Kuwait Decree-Law No. 67/1980 .