Definitions from Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd Edition and Ballentine's Law Dictionary as are available for each term in each dictionary.
  • Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd Edition

    In Scotch law. An action whereby it is sought to have some right of .property or of status or other right judicially ascertained and declared. Bell.
    —Declarator of trust. An action resorted to against a trustee who holds property upon titles ex facie for his own benefit. Bell.