UNIFORM DECLARATORY JUDGMENTS ACT
Drafted by the
NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF COMMISSIONERS
ON UNIFORM STATE LAWS
and by it
APPROVED AND RECOMMENDED FOR ENACTMENT
IN ALL THE STATES
at its
CONFERENCE AT SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.
AUGUST 2 – 8, 1922
COMMITTEE ON DECLARATORY JUDGMENTS OF
THE COMMISSIONERS ON UNIFORM STATE
LAWS — 1922–1923
JAMES R. CATON, Alexandria, Va. Chairman
GEORGE A. BOURGEOIS, Law Building, Atlantic City, N.J.
T. A. HAMMOND, Atlanta, Ga.
CHARLES S. LOBINGIER, Shanghai, China.
D. A. G. OUZTS, Greenwood, S.C.
EDGAR B. STEWART, Morgantown, W. Va.
BEN F. WASHER, Louisville, Ky.
NATHAN WILLIAM MacCHESNEY, President of the Conference
THE NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF COMMISSIONERS
ON UNIFORM STATE LAWS
The National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws is composed
of Commissioners appointed by Legislative or Executive authority from the States, the
District of Columbia, the territory of Alaska, and the Island Possessions of the United
States. The organization meeting was held at Saratoga, New York, in August, 1892; and
annual meetings have been regularly held since that time, immediately preceding the
meetings of the American Bar Association.
The purpose of the organization, as its name imports, is to promote uniformity of
legislation on subjects of common interest throughout the United States. The
Commissioners are chosen from the legal profession, and serve without compensation or
emoluments of any sort. Many of them have for years paid their own expenses, and all of
them have rendered unstinting services for the public welfare. There is nothing of a
personal or private nature about any of the aims or objects of the National Conference.
Proposed acts are carefully drawn by special committees of trained lawyers, assisted by
experts in many instances, and are printed, distributed and discussed in the national
Conference at more than one annual session. When finally approved by the Conference,
the Uniform Acts are recommended for general adoption throughout the jurisdiction of
the United States and are submi