Power v. McNair

How courts have described this case

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• holding parties cannot by consent confer jurisdiction on the court to render a declaratory judgment
• noting that where adjudication of a question “would settle no legal rights of the parties,” it would be “only advisory and, therefore, beyond the intended purpose and scope of a declaratory judgment”
• explaining the DJA \should be liberally construed to accomplish its intended purpose of affording a speedy and inexpensive method of deciding legal disputes and of settling legal rights and relationships\
• stating this Court \simply refuse[s] to enter the field of advisory opinions\
• “In the event the Court should try issues not raised by the pleadings, it shall state in the record all such issues tried and the reason therefor.”
• the parties cannot by consent confer jurisdiction on the court to render a declaratory judgment

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