HRS §632-6
How this law should be understood and used
This law is meant to help people resolve legal disputes without forcing one side to break the law first. Courts should interpret and apply it broadly to make the legal system more useful to the public.
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The statute, as written — Provisions, remedial
This chapter is declared to be remedial. Its purpose is to afford relief from the uncertainty and insecurity attendant upon controversies over legal rights, without requiring one of the parties interested so to invade the rights asserted by the other as to entitle the party to maintain an ordinary action therefor. It is to be liberally interpreted and administered, with a view to making the courts more serviceable to the people.
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