paragraph 387 in volume 3, chapter 27, The Decision
As seen, in the Polish Upper Silesia (Merits) case the Permanent Court had decided that Article 59 ‘does not exclude purely declaratory judgments’.1 In the Chorzów Factory (Interpretation) case, the Permanent Court explained what it meant by a declaratory judgment:
[T]he intention … is to ensure recognition of a situation at law, once and for all and with binding force as between the Parties; so that the legal position thus established cannot again be called in question in so…