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Title VI
CIVIL PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE
Chapter 86
DECLARATORY JUDGMENTS
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F.S. 86.101
86.101 Construction of law.—This chapter is declared to be substantive and remedial. Its purpose is to settle and to afford relief from insecurity and uncertainty with respect to rights, status, and other equitable or legal relations and is to be liberally administered and construed.
History.—s. 11, ch. 21820, 1943; s. 38, ch. 67-254.
Note.—Former s. 87.11.