Der Gegenstand des Feststellungsverfahrens

Matthias Jacobs examines the admissibility requirements of an action for a declaratory judgment in civil proceedings and their historical and teleological basis. He reveals the weaknesses in the traditional dogmatics, reappraises the action for a declaratory judgment's loss of substance in substantive law and attempts to outline and delimit the legal protection area in Section 256 Paragraph 1 of the Code of Civil Procedures more precisely than before by connecting it to substantive law. The break with the procedural interpretation of the action for a declaratory judgment opens the way for a recollection of the definitional element of the legal relationship and a discharge of the interest in an action for a declaratory judgment.