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. It is to be liberally construed and administered.
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-53-130
Chapter shall be construed liberally
Known as the Uniform Declaratory Judgments Act
The act spans §§ 15-53-10–15-53-90 (14 sections).
Applied in 8 court decisions — leading case Pond Place Partners, Inc. v. Poole (2002)
Most recently applied in Atkins v. Wilson (March 2016)
1962 Code SECTION 10-2013; 1952 Code SECTION 10-2013; 1948 (45) 2014.
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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: South Carolina Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain South Carolina statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.