DEC 
psy caufes taken from her make), they fay fhe is camber- 
kee 
Eck, Lfulf, is a {pace under - quarter-deck of a fhip _ 
war, between the foremoft bulk. sage the hetege anne 
fore ee of the slarlaae edec e Northu caberlond 
collier La the half ae and is ufually 
the hat ato of the th ow, 
ope, 18 aa ake of cordages interwoven, and 
itr: nero over a ean that has no deck, Pena ii _— it is 
eafy to annoy the enemy who comes to board and has 
leaped thereon. Thele are little uted but in penile, 
to d: fend them from the corfairs. 
DEC ,or Marcuette’, in Heraldry, a term ap- 
plicd to an eagle or other birds, when their feathers are 
bined at the ees a a {mall line or purfle of another 
* DECKENDORF, in Geography, a {mall town of Bava- 
ria, in lawer ec in the diitriét of the fame name, witha 
bridge over the nube. 
DECKER, or oe R, Joun, in Biography, was born 
in Flanders about ae midd stl. of the fixteenth centur He 
was educated at Douay, from which place he remo a to 
Rome, where he sek: the order of the Jefuits, and thence 
he went to aie to complete his ftudies, and to perfect 
— 
ae orders, an then went to native place to teach phi- 
ophy and fcholattic ie log e was aft panes made 
chancellor of the univerfity oF Gratz, i in which fituation he 
in the year 1619. Decker is famous for his fkall in chro- 
nology and hiftory, and publifhed vartous works chiefly in 
Latin, which exhibit much erudition and intenfe fiudy: his 
- work was entitled ‘ Velificatio, feu theoremata de 
ann ~ ac Lees ae deque univerfa Jefu Chrifti in 
carne e tabula chronographica a capta par 
Pom caput "Ferotlyaa Ta deletam a Tito Urbem et 'Tem- 
plum,” 1616, 4to. Moreri. 
Decker, eee a Dutch Phyfician and profeffor in 
ce of medicine at the univerfity of Leyden, who 
It has been feveral times reprinted. 
firft defcribed, ranged in clafles, with the ¢ompofitions into 
which they enter; thea the difeafes, with the method of treat- 
by mercurial fri€tions with age e. He does not fay 
In lethargy he ufed the tur- 
bith mineral as an errhine. is now ufed, and with 
advantage. Haller Bib. 
DE NGEN, in Geography, a {mall town er Wurtem- 
berg, onthe river Fils, in the diitri€t of Wiefenft 
DECLAMATION, a difcourfe or fpeech odes in 1 public, 
in ha aan and manner of an oration. 
g the Greeks, declamation was the art of {peaking 
iene on all fubjeés, aud on all fides of a queltion; of 
making a thing appear juft that was lan and of triumph- 
ing over the beft and foundeft reafon 
Such fort of ee M. de St. cee eal 
were only fit to corrupt the mind, by accufto, men, 
cultivate an acaguacca: rather than to foe a ae 
DEC 
— and to feek for ae to neti upon rather 
an folid reafons to co the underftan 
It is f@id that a aa Geter ee Piotius Gallus, 
on introduced the ufe of declamations at Rome. In this 
The term fre- 
: Ae certain “ exercifes 
which {cholate perform, to teach them to {peak in public 
We fay, a declamation oe Hannibal againit Saaloh 
the oe of Quinti‘ia 
e colleges of the tite aedanatn ns are little thea- 
cal o or dramatic performances, confiftin ew {cenes 
far divided into a pila hae by the fludents by wee of ex- 
ercife, and to m for {peaking in public e- 
ciate are ee aad ufeful exercifes pared in the 
l 
DecLamation, Mufical. See oo 
DECLAMATORY Sryre. See Sr 
DECL Te or Dectana, in Anci a Gogroply. a a 
town of Spain, in the Tarragonentis, and territory of t 
e bales or cafes, brought to the officer for 
sa hod inward or outw ard, 
10N, in Law, rae a Ifo narratio or count and 
ance a ‘tale, the act o 
mplain aero or 
nal writ upon which the eétion of the plaintiff is founded, 
with the additional circumftances of time and place, when 
and where the injury was committed. In the king’s bench, 
when the defendant is brought into court by a situ of Mid. 
a ex, sl a fuppofed tr: La in order to give the courta 
rid Gio - plaintiff may declare in whatever action, or 
te ae whatever ian he thinks proper; untefs 
he has held him to bail by a fpecial ac — aes the ee 
tiff is bound to purfue. And fo alfo, in order to have the 
benefit of a capias to fecure the defen dae. perfon, it was 
the ancient praétice, and is therefore ftill emer hee in the 
in whatever ation the nature of histrue injury may require ; 
as in an a€tion of covenant, or on the cafe for breach ot con- 
traét, or other lefs forcible tranfgreffion ; unlefs by hold- 
ing the defendant to ba: : on a {pecial ac etiam, he kag bound’ 
aa aed to declare accordingly 
real a&tions, when poffeffion n of land is to be Bia e ti 
or dances for an a€tual eS or for watte, &c. affecting 
land, the plaintiff muft lay his de claration, or ae clare his 
injury to have happened in the very county and place where 
it did really happen; but in tranfitory actions, for injuries 
that m 
fendant will make affidavit, that t 
arofe net in that but in 
(that is, the wicinia, or 
neighbourhood in which the injury is declared to ne), 
and will oblige the plaintiff to declare in the oth-r county,; 
unlefs he will undertake to give material — in the firft. 
For the ftatutes 6 Rich. II. . an V.c. 18, 
having ordered all writs to be their anne counties, 
this, as the judges eee need them to a 
