34. Discretion of court as to declaration of status or right.—Any person entitled to any legal
character, or to any right as to any property, may institute a suit against any person denying, or interested
to deny, his title to such character or right, and the court may in its discretion make therein a declaration
that he is so entitled, and the plaintiff need not in such suit ask for any further relief:
Provided that no court shall make any such declaration where the plaintiff, being able to seek further
relief than a mere declaration of title, omits to do so.
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Explanation.—A trustee of property is a “person interested to deny” a title adverse to the title of some
one who is not inexistence, and for whom, if in existence, he would be a trustee.
35. Effect of declaration.—A declaration made under this Chapter is binding only on the parties to the
suit, persons claiming through them respectively, and, where any of the parties are trustees, on the persons
for whom, if in existence at the date of the declaration, such parties would be trustees.