This article is declared to be remedial; its purpose is to settle and to afford relief from uncertainty and insecurity with respects to rights, status, and other legal relations and is to be liberally construed and administered. This article shall be so interpreted and construed as to effectuate its general purpose to make uniform the law of those states which enact it and to harmonize, as far as possible, with federal laws and regulations on the subject of declaratory judgments.
Structure Code of Alabama
Article 5 - Declaratory Judgments.
Section 6-6-220 - "Person" Defined.
Section 6-6-221 - Purpose, Construction, and Administration of Article.
Section 6-6-222 - Power of Courts of Record; Form and Effect of Declarations.
Section 6-6-224 - Construction of Contracts Before or After Breach.
Section 6-6-225 - Questions on Administration of Trust or Estate of a Decedent, Etc.
Section 6-6-226 - Enumeration in Sections 6-6-223, 6-6-224, and 6-6-225 Not Exclusive.
Section 6-6-227 - Persons to Be Made Parties; Rights of Persons Not Parties.
Section 6-6-228 - Determination of Issue of Fact.
Section 6-6-229 - When Refusal Proper.
Section 6-6-230 - Granting of Further Relief; Application Therefor; Order to Show Cause.