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Declaratory

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

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