The circuit courts of this state, within their respective jurisdictions shall have power to declare rights, status, and other legal relations whether or not further relief is or could be claimed. No action or proceeding shall be open to objection on the ground that a declaratory judgment or decree is prayed for. The declaration may be either affirmative or negative in form and effect; and such declarations shall have the force and effect of a final judgment or decree.
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 527.010
Scope
Applied in 7 court decisions — leading case Hooper v. Advance America, Cash Advance Centers of Missouri, Inc. (2009)
Most recently applied in Blair v. City of Hannibal (July 2016)
Effective: 02 Jan 1979, see footnote; (RSMo 1939 § 1126, A.L. 1978 H.B. 1634)
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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.
Official source: Missouri Revisor of Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Missouri statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.