This Article is declared to be remedial, its purpose is to settle and to afford relief from uncertainty and insecurity with respect to rights, status, and other legal relations, and it is to be liberally construed and administered.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 1-264
Liberal construction and administration
Known as the Uniform Declaratory Judgment Act
The act spans §§ 1-253 to 1-267 (15 sections).
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case City of Raleigh v. Norfolk Southern Railway Co. (1969)
Most recently applied in 248 N.C. App. 532 - Ocracomax, LLC v. Davis (August 2016)
1931, c. 102, s. 12.
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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: North Carolina General Assembly. Reproduced from public-domain North Carolina statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.