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Declaratory judgment






Declaratory judgment

A statutory remedy for judicial determination of a controversy where plaintiff is in doubt about his legal rights.

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Statutory
Relating to a statute; created or defined by a law.

Remedy
The means employed to enforce a right or redress an injury.

Judicial
Belonging, or emanating from a judge, as such.

Determination
The end, the conclusion, of a right or authority.

Controversy
A dispute arising between two or more persons.

Plaintiff
The party who begins an action; the party who complains or sues in an action and is named as such in the court's records. Also called a petitioner.

Legal
That which is according to law. It is used in opposition to equitable, as the legal estate is, in the trustee, the equitable estate in the cestui que trust.



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Declarant
One who makes a declaration.

Declaration of intention
The act of an alien, who goes before a court of record, and in a forma manner declares that it is, bona fide, his intention to become a citizen of the United States, and to renounce forever all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty, whereof he may at the time be a citizen or subject.

Declaration of trust
The act by which an individual acknowledges that a property, the title of which he holds, does in fact belong to another, for whose use he holds the same. The instrument in which the acknowledgment is made, is also called a declaration of trust; but such a declaration is not always in writing, though it is highly proper it should be so.

Declaratory
Something which explains, or ascertains what before was uncertain or doubtful; as a declaratory statute, which is one passed to put an end to a doubt as to what the law is, and which declares what it is, and what it has been.



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Decisum
Latin. Cut off, settled, decided; a decision, a precedent.

Declarant
One who makes a declaration.

Declaration of intention
The act of an alien, who goes before a court of record, and in a forma manner declares that it is, bona fide, his intention to become a citizen of the United States, and to renounce forever all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty, whereof he may at the time be a citizen or subject.

Declaration of trust
The act by which an individual acknowledges that a property, the title of which he holds, does in fact belong to another, for whose use he holds the same. The instrument in which the acknowledgment is made, is also called a declaration of trust; but such a declaration is not always in writing, though it is highly proper it should be so.

Declaratory
Something which explains, or ascertains what before was uncertain or doubtful; as a declaratory statute, which is one passed to put an end to a doubt as to what the law is, and which declares what it is, and what it has been.

Declaratory judgment

Decoction
Medical jurisp. The operation of boiling certain ingredients in a fluid, for the purpose of extracting the parts soluble at that temperature. Decoction also means the product of this operation.

Deconfes
Canon law in France. Formerly those persons who died without confession were so called; whether they refused to confess or whether they were criminals to whom the sacrament was refused.

Decorum
Proper behaviour; good order.

Decoy
A pond used for the breeding and maintenance of water-fowl.

Decree
1) Legislation. In some countries as in France, some acts of the legislature, or of the sovereign, which have the force of law, are called decrees. 2) Practice. The judgment or sentence of a court of equity.

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