This chapter is declared to be remedial. The purpose of this chapter is to settle and to afford relief from uncertainty and insecurity with respect to rights, status and other legal relations, and is to be liberally construed and administered.
ORS 28.120
Known as the Uniform Declaratory Judgments Act
The act spans §§ 28–28 (27 sections).
Applied in 9 court decisions — leading case Chernaik v. Kitzhaber (2014)
Most recently applied in 327 Or. App. 465 - Albrecht v. Emmert (August 2023)
Amended by 2005 c.22 §18
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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: Oregon State Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Oregon statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.