RCW 19.52.005, 19.52.020, 19.52.030, 19.52.032, 19.52.034, and 19.52.036 are enacted in order to protect the residents of this state from debts bearing burdensome interest rates; and in order to better effect the policy of this state to use this state's policies and courts to govern the affairs of our residents and the state; and in recognition of the duty to protect our citizens from oppression generally.
RCW 19.52.005
Declaration of policy.
Applied in 15 court decisions — leading case 90 Wash. 2d 680 - O'Brien v. Shearson Hayden Stone, Inc. (1978)
Most recently applied in NV One, LLC v. Potomac Realty Capital, LLC (February 2014)
1967 ex.s. c 23 s 2.
How often courts cite this section
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: Washington State Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Washington statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.