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Pennsylvania's Clarifying Amendment For Declaratory Judgments, Edwin Borchard

Faculty Scholarship Series

On May 26 1943, the Pennsylvania legislature adopted the following amendment to Section 6 of the Uniform Declaratory Judgments Act, originally enacted in 1923:1 Sec. 6: Relief by declaratory judgment or decree may be granted in all civil cases where an actual controversy exists between contending parties, or where the court is satisfied that antagonistic claims are present between the parties involved which indicate imminent and inevitable litigation, or where in any such case the court is satisfied' that a party asserts a legal relation, status, right, or privilege in which he has a concrete interest and that there ...