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A Law Dictionary and Glossary · George C. Kinney · 1893
A Law Dictionary and Glossary
I. fr. and eng. A statement of a plaintiff's case in court, being the first in the series of the pleadings in an action; a declaration, particularly in a real action; a distinct statement in a declaration of a cause of action, — either a statement of a different cause or of the same cause in a different form; a particular charge in an indictment