Tex. Civ. Prac. & Rem. Code § 37.002 · Chapter 37. DECLARATORY JUDGMENTS
SHORT TITLE, CONSTRUCTION, INTERPRETATION.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) This chapter may be cited as the Uniform Declaratory Judgments Act.
(b) This chapter is remedial; its purpose is to settle and to afford relief from uncertainty and insecurity with respect to rights, status, and other legal relations; and it is to be liberally construed and administered.
(c) This chapter shall be so interpreted and construed as to effectuate its general purpose to make uniform the law of those states that enact it and to harmonize, as far as possible, with federal laws and regulations on the subject of declaratory judgments and decrees.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. 959, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1985.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/CP/htm/CP.37.htm
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- sha256 963f85f1ac62b8050c9230f498403c7a73e22233f6df4c376247d8eeb95d43c2
- Composed by
- compose_tx.py 2026-10-05: the Legislative Council's chapter files read in document order; verify_tx.py's independent reading (lxml DOM walk) agrees character for character
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