This chapter 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 is to be liberally construed and administered. The remedy provided by this chapter shall be cumulative and shall not exclude or prevent the exercise of any other right, remedy, or process heretofore allowed by law or by previous enactment of the legislature.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 9-30-12
Construction
Known as the Uniform Declaratory Judgments Act
The act spans §§ 9–9 (16 sections).
P.L. 1959, ch. 90, § 12.
Official source: Rhode Island General Assembly. Reproduced from public-domain Rhode Island statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.