Effective - 28 Aug 1939
527.020. Power to construe. — Any person interested under a deed, will, written contract or other writings constituting a contract, or whose rights, status or other legal relations are affected by a statute, municipal ordinance, contract or franchise, may have determined any question of construction or validity arising under the instrument, statute, ordinance, contract, or franchise and obtain a declaration of rights, status or other legal relations thereunder.
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(RSMo 1939 § 1127)
(1978) Held not-for-profit corporation is legal entity separate and apart from the persons who are members, and in order to have standing the corporation itself must have legally protected interest. Interest of individual members cannot give standing to corporation. Citizens Against Rezoning, Inc. v. St. Louis County (A.), 563 S.W.2d 173.
Structure Missouri Revised Statutes
Title XXXVI - Statutory Actions and Torts
Chapter 527 - Declaratory Judgments; Actions Involving Land Titles; Lis Pendens; Change of Name
Section 527.020 - Power to construe.
Section 527.030 - Before breach.
Section 527.040 - Declaration of rights or legal relationships, right to obtain, when.
Section 527.050 - Enumeration not exclusive.
Section 527.060 - Discretionary.
Section 527.080 - Supplemental relief.
Section 527.120 - Construction.
Section 527.130 - "Person" defined.
Section 527.150 - Suits to determine interest and quiet title, how instituted — effect of judgment.
Section 527.160 - Practice to conform to code of civil procedure.
Section 527.170 - Costs in suits to determine interest and quiet title.
Section 527.180 - Suit to perfect title by limitation — proceedings.
Section 527.188 - Petition for vacation of abandoned easement.
Section 527.190 - Proceedings to establish title when records, deeds are lost or destroyed.
Section 527.200 - Publication of notice — proceedings.
Section 527.210 - Decree conclusive as to whom — prima facie as to whom.
Section 527.220 - Limitation — court may modify its decree, when.
Section 527.230 - Copy to be recorded, where — may be read in evidence.
Section 527.240 - Proceedings to conform to the rules in civil practice.
Section 527.250 - Form of publication notice.
Section 527.260 - Notice of lis pendens in equity action — recording.
Section 527.270 - Petition, where presented — contents — proceedings.
Section 527.280 - Fees to be paid by petitioner.
Section 527.290 - Notice of change to be given, when and how — not required, when.