The Collaborative International Dictionary
Declaration \Dec`la*ra"tion\, n. [F. d['e]claration, fr. L. declaratio, fr. declarare. See Declare.]
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.
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That which is declared or proclaimed; announcement; distinct statement; formal expression; avowal.
Declarations of mercy and love . . . in the Gospel.
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The document or instrument containing such statement or proclamation; as, the Declaration of Independence (now preserved in Washington).
In 1776 the Americans laid before Europe that noble Declaration, which ought to be hung up in the nursery of every king, and blazoned on the porch of every royal palace.
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(Law) That part of the process or pleadings 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.
Declaration of Independence. (Amer. Hist.) See Declaration of Independence in the vocabulary. See also under Independence.
Declaration of rights. (Eng. Hist) See Bill of rights, under Bill.
Declaration of trust (Law), a paper subscribed by a grantee of property, acknowledging that he holds it in trust for the purposes and upon the terms set forth.
--Abbott.
Wikipedia
Declaration of Rights may refer to:
- Bill of Rights 1689, enacted by the Parliament of England
- Declaration of Rights and Grievances, 1765 colonial protest in North America to the British Stamp Act
- Declaration and Resolves of the First Continental Congress, 1774 enumeration of colonial rights early in the American Revolution
- Virginia Declaration of Rights, adopted in Virginia in 1776
- Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, adopted in France in 1789
- Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen of 1793, written in France in 1793
- Declaration of the Rights of the Negro Peoples of the World, adopted at the 1920 Universal Negro Improvement Association convention in New York chaired by Marcus Garvey
- Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 1948
- Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples by the United Nations General Assembly in 2007
- 'Declaration of Rights', a song originally by the reggae group ' The Abyssinians' and covered by several other artists
Usage examples of "declaration of rights".
No, its purpose had to be to serve as a gesture, a declaration of rights under the intricate rules of Galactic Protocol, more ancient and ornate than Japanese imperial court ritual.
Next item, the everybody-means-everybody-no-exceptions part of the Declaration of Rights.
Preferring what Jefferson had written in the Declaration of Independence, the convention revised the first article of the Declaration of Rights, that all men were &ldquo.
And although, like some other natural rights, this has not yet entered into any declaration of rights, it is no less a law, and ought to be acted on by honest governments.