NC General Statutes
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 1-264 (2026)
Liberal construction and administration
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This Article 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 it is to be liberally construed and administered. (1931, c. 102, s. 12.)
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 29
cases (6 in the last 5 years), 1958–2026 · leading case: Charlotte-Mecklenburg Hosp. Auth. v. North Carolina Indus. Comm'n, 443 S.E.2d 716 (N.C. 1994).
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Hosp. Auth. v. North Carolina Indus. Comm'n, 443 S.E.2d 716 (N.C. 1994). “” N.C.G.S. § 1-264 (1983). Section 1-254 provides: Any person .”
Town of Spencer v. Town of East Spencer, 522 S.E.2d 297 (N.C. 1999). “2d 450, 453 (1942), and the legislature has stated its intent that the Act be liberally construed and administered, N.C.G.S. § 1-264 (1996). For a court to have jurisdiction under the Act, it is required only "`that the plaintiff shall allege in his complaint and show at the…”
Penley v. Penley, 332 S.E.2d 51 (N.C. 1985). “G.S. 1-264 provides: Liberal construction and administration.”
Stevenson v. Parsons, 384 S.E.2d 291 (N.C. Ct. App. 1989). “G.S. § 1-264. This [Act] 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 it is to be liberally construed and administered.”
Conner v. North Carolina Council of State, 716 S.E.2d 836 (N.C. 2011). “With respect to declaratory judgments, our General Assembly provided: “This Article is declared to be remedial, *258 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…”
City of Raleigh v. Norfolk S. Ry. Co., 168 S.E.2d 389 (N.C. 1969). “Construing the Declaratory Judgment Act liberally, as required by N. C. Gen. Stat. § 1-264, we hold that the trial court and the Court of Appeals erred in attempting to declare the rights of the parties since no justiciable controversy now exists between them.”
United States Cold Storage, Inc. v. Town of Warsaw, 784 S.E.2d 575 (N.C. Ct. App. 2016). “Because this case is purely a question of law and a judgment will “settle and [] afford relief from uncertainty,” we agree with the parties that a motion for declaratory judgment was properly heard in the trial court.”
Bland v. City of Wilmington, 180 S.E.2d 813 (N.C. 1971). “” G.S. 1-264. Claiming the right under G.S.”
Baucom's Nursery v. Mecklenburg Cnty., Nc, 303 S.E.2d 236 (N.C. Ct. App. 1983). “” It is fundamental under the Declaratory Judgment Act that a party who considers his rights to be affected by a zoning ordinance, in a situation where there can be no doubt that litigation involving him is imminent, does not have to wait to be sued, but that he may go to court,…”
Raintree Corp. v. City of Charlotte, 271 S.E.2d 524 (N.C. Ct. App. 1980). “Also, since the North Carolina Declaratory Judgment Act is to be liberally construed, G.S. § 1-264; York v. Newman, 2 N.C. App.”
Ocracomax, LLC v. Davis, 788 S.E.2d 664 (N.C. Ct. App. 2016). “N.C. Gen.Stat. § 1-254 (2015). Our General Assembly has provided that Article 26, governing declaratory judgments, "is to be liberally construed and administered.”
Woodard v. Carteret Cnty., 153 S.E.2d 809 (N.C. 1967). “G.S. 1-264 states: “This article [Uniform Declaratory Judgment Act] 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 it is to be liberally construed and…”
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