Missouri Revised Statutes
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 527.120 (2026)
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527.120. Construction. — This law is declared to be remedial; its purpose is to settle and to afford relief from uncertainty and insecurity with respect to rights, status and other legal relations; and is to be liberally construed and administered.
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(RSMo 1939 § 1137)
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 30
cases (3 in the last 5 years), 1955–2023 · leading case: Schaefer v. Koster, 342 S.W.3d 299 (Mo. 2011).
Schaefer v. Koster, 342 S.W.3d 299 (Mo. 2011). “" Section 527.120, RSMo 2000. [1] The principal opinion does not serve that purpose and ignores the statute of limitations set out in § 516.”
Comm. for Educ. Equality v. State, 878 S.W.2d 446 (Mo. 1994). “" Moreover, the declaratory judgment statutes are "to be liberally construed," Section 527.120, RSMo 1986, and employed to "terminate a controversy or remove an uncertainty.”
Planned Parenthood of Kansas v. Nixon, 220 S.W.3d 732 (Mo. 2007). “” Section 527.120, RSMo 2000. By statute, declaratory judgment actions are to be “liberally construed and administered.”
Washington Univ. v. Royal Crown Bottling Co. of St. Louis, 801 S.W.2d 458 (Mo. Ct. App. 1990). “” § 527.120, RSMo 1986. A judicial declaration of the lessee’s repair and maintenance obligations would provide certain and secure relief.”
Cronin v. State Farm Fire & Cas. Co., 958 S.W.2d 583 (Mo. Ct. App. 1997). “Section 527.120 declares that the Declaratory Judgment Act is "remedial.”
Greg Minana v. Tom Monroe, Defendants/Respondents., 467 S.W.3d 901 (Mo. Ct. App. 2015). “By the clear, unambiguous language of the deed, the Trustees evidenced that they had found the five conditions precedent satis *908 fied, and thus the Kingsbury West residents’ easement rights vested upon the recording of this conveyance. Courts may grant declaratory relief “to…”
Turner v. Missouri Dep't of Conservation, 349 S.W.3d 434 (Mo. Ct. App. 2011). “Indeed, while even the general law of declaratory judgments “is to be liberally construed and administered[,]” section 527.120 still requires: (1) a justiciable controversy that presents a real, substantial, presently-existing controversy admitting of specific relief, as…”
Payne v. Cunningham, 549 S.W.3d 43 (Mo. Ct. App. 2018). “"§ 527.120. Parties to a contract may invoke the Act to "have determined any question of construction or validity" and "obtain a declaration of rights.”
Midwest Div.-Oprmc, LLC v. Dept. Soc. Serv., Div. of Med. Servs., 241 S.W.3d 371 (Mo. Ct. App. 2007). “Section 527.120 provides that “This law is declared to be remedial; its purpose is to settle and to afford relief from uncertainty and insecurity with respect to rights, status and other legal relations; and is to be liberally construed and administered.”
Missouri Dep't of Soc. Servs. v. Agi-Bloomfield Convalescent Ctr., Inc., 682 S.W.2d 166 (Mo. Ct. App. 1984). “Section 527.120, RSMo 1978, is also of cardinal significance: “This law is declared to be remedial; its purpose is to settle and to afford relief from uncertainty and insecurity with respect to rights, status and other legal relations; and is to be liberally construed and…”
Van Dyke v. LVS Bldg. Corp., 174 S.W.3d 689 (Mo. Ct. App. 2005). “Section 527.120 states that declaratory' relief is remedial.”
Nancy Gardner v. Bank of Am., N.A., 466 S.W.3d 642 (Mo. Ct. App. 2015). “” Section 527.120. However, “claims for declaratory relief are not intended to be a substitute for all existing *647 remedies and, instead, are merely designed to supply a deficiency in our remedial proceedings.”
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