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2005 Florida Statutes
SECTION 101
Construction of law.
Construction of law.
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.