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declaratory
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Declaratory \De*clar"a*to*ry\, a. [Cf. F. d['e]claratoire.] Making declaration, explanation, or exhibition; making clear or manifest; affirmative; expressive; as, a clause declaratory of the will of the legislature.
Declaratory act (Law), an act or statute which sets forth more clearly, and declares what is, the existing law.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., from Medieval Latin declaratorius, from Latin declarator, from declarare (see declare).
Wiktionary
a. Serving to declare or explain
WordNet
adj. relating to the use of or having the nature of a declaration [syn: declarative, asserting(a)] [ant: interrogative, interrogative]
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "declaratory".
Accordingly, that they might not relax the nerves of their monarchy, and that they might preserve a close conformity to the practice of their ancestors, as it appeared in the declaratory statutes of Queen Mary 5 and Queen Elizabeth, in the next clause they vest, by recognition, in their majesties all the legal prerogatives of the crown, declaring "that in them they are most fully, rightfully, and intirely invested, incorporated, united, and annexed".
Last, the secretary of defense said, we have to set declaratory policy, announce to the world what we're doing.
Inasmuch as a novel point in Constitutional Law is involved in this matter, if an appeal is made, the Court will, under the Declaratory Relief Act of 1984, on its own motion send the matter directly to Federal Appellate Court with recommendation that it be referred at once to the Supreme Court.
Smith the Supreme Court, in a declaratory relief opinion made notable only by Mr.
To ensure enough votes for the repeal, the Rockingham administration had felt obliged to precede it with a Declaratory Act, which reasserted the imperial right of taxation anywhere in the empire and affirmed the legislative supremacy of Parliament “to make laws and statutes of sufficient force and vitality to bind the colonies and people of America.
Miss Wisk's mission, my guardian said, was to show the world that woman's mission was man's mission and that the only genuine mission of both man and woman was to be always moving declaratory resolutions about things in general at public meetings.