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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In Scots law, a declaratory action; a form of action in the Court of Session, the object of which is to have a fact declared judicially, leaving the legal consequences of it to follow as a matter of course: as, a declarator of marriage, etc.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Scots Law) A form of action by which some right or interest is sought to be judicially declared.

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  • noun law, Scotland A legal declaration

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Examples

  • I have known it conjoined with a declarator of marriage. —

    Redgauntlet 2008

  • Disposuit armatos qui ipsum interficerent: hi protenus mandatum exequentes, &c. Ille et rex declarator, et Stratonicem quae fratri nupserat, uxorem ducit: sed postquam audivit fratrem vivere, &c.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • May 23, 2006, 12: 24 am california state disability insurance says: california state disability insurance declarator Sweeney covariant Dallas rapprochement

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Mainstream Media Ruled Unconstitutional: 2004

  • High Court for a declarator spelling out what she is owed.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2001

  • Similarly, the Commission says the declarator asked for in respect of the Archbishop does not comply with the Supreme Court

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

  • Secondly, given that there is some dispute over the constitutionality of some of the options made in the Base document, the legislature should immediately make a request of the Constitutional Court that they assist us through making a declarator on these issues.

    CONSTITUTIONAL-MAKING IN KWAZULU-NATAL 1996

  • Secondly, given that there is some dispute over the constitutionality of some of the options made in the Base document, the legislature should immediately make a request of the Constitutional Court that they assist us through making a declarator on these issues.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

  • I have known it conjoined with a declarator of marriage.

    Redgauntlet Walter Scott 1801

  • You cannot have multiple data-types (types that can be deduced to different types): error C3538: in a declarator-list 'auto' must always deduce to the same type

    The Code Project Latest Articles Ajay Vijayvargiya 2010

  • Justification The '&' and '*' in a typedef declaration only apply to the declarator they are adjacent to.

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