CODE OF VIRGINIA

POWER TO ISSUE DECLARATORY JUDGMENTS (§ 8.01-184)

In cases of actual controversy, circuit courts within the scope of their
respective jurisdictions shall have power to make binding adjudications of
right, whether or not consequential relief is, or at the time could be, claimed
and no action or proceeding shall be open to objection on the ground that a
judgment order or decree merely declaratory of right is prayed for.
Controversies involving the interpretation of deeds, wills, and other
instruments of writing, statutes, municipal ordinances and other governmental
regulations, may be so determined, and this enumeration does not exclude other
instances of actual antagonistic assertion and denial of right.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 8-578; 1977, c. 617.