This chapter is declared to be substantive and remedial. Its purpose is to settle and to afford relief from insecurity and uncertainty with respect to rights, status, and other equitable or legal relations and is to be liberally administered and construed.
Fla. Stat. § 86.101
Construction of law
Applied in 5 court decisions — leading case 263 So. 2d 797 - In Re Apportionment Law, Senate Joint Res. No. 1305 (1972)
Most recently applied in 984 F. Supp. 2d 1318 - Incredible Investments, LLC v. Fernandez-Rundle (November 2013)
History.--s. 11, ch. 21820, 1943; s. 38, ch. 67-254
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Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
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