"Declaration" is a word in LAW AND LEGAL, ENGLISH
In pleading. The The first of the pleadings on the part of the
plaintiff in an action at law, being a formal and methodical specification of the facts and circumstances constituting his cause of action. It commonly comprises several sections or divisions,
called "counts," and its formal parts follow each
other in this order: Title, venue, commencement,
cause of action, counts, conclusion. The declaration, at common law, answers to the "libel" in ecclesiastical and admiralty law, the "bill" in equity,
the "petition" in civil law, the "complaint" in
code pleading, and the "count" in real actions. U.
S. v. Ambrose, 108 U.S. 336, 2 S.Ct. 682, 27 L.Ed.
746; Railway Co. v. Nugent, 86 Md. 349, 38 A.
779, 39 L.R.A. 161; Dixon v. Sturgeon, 6 Serg.
& R. (Pa.) 28; 1 Chit.Pl. 248; Co.Litt. 17 a, 303 a;
Bacon, Abr. Pleas (B) ; Comyns, Dig. Pleader,
C, 7; Lawes, Pl. 35; Steph.Pl. 36; Leslie v. Mendelson, 302 Mich. 95, 4 N.W.2d 481, 484.
- Paris, Deolaration Of in LAW AND LEGAL
The document or instrument containing such statement
or proclamation; as, the Declaration of Independence (now preserved in
Washington).
That which is declared or proclaimed; announcement;
distinct statement; formal expression; avowal.
The act of declaring, or publicly announcing; explicit
asserting; undisguised token of a ground or side taken on any subject;
proclamation; exposition; as, the declaration of an opinion; a
declaration of war, etc.
That part of the process in which the plaintiff sets
forth in order and at large his cause of complaint; the narration of
the plaintiff's case containing the count, or counts. See Count, n., 3.
I swear that girl was born with a pen in her hand, the moon in her hair and stars in her soul.
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