Alabama § 6-6-221 - Purpose, Construction, and Administration of Article.
Full text of Alabama Code of Alabama § 6-6-221 — Purpose, Construction, and Administration of Article., with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ 6-6-221. Purpose, Construction, and Administration of Article.
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.
Source: official Alabama text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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Section 6-6-221 ("Purpose, Construction, and Administration of Article.") is part of the Code of Alabama, the codified statutory law of Alabama. It sets out the legal rule or procedure described in the text above. Statutes are amended regularly, so always verify against the official source.
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