646 D E C 
See. affeCling land, the plaintiff mud lay his declaration, 
or declare his injury to have happened in the very cobnty 
and place where it really did happen ; but in tranfitory 
actions, for injuries that might have happened any where, 
as debt, detinue, (hinder, and the like, the plaintiff may 
declare in what county he pleafes, and then the trial 
mult be had in that county in which the declaration is 
laid. 3 Comm . 294. In aftion of debt, upon a bond, the 
plaintiff in bis declaration mult allege a place where the 
bond was made, becaufc the jury fhould come from that 
place; and if this be omitted, the declaration is ill. r 
NclJAbr. 619. It is good to lay large and fufficient da¬ 
mages in declarations : and damages (hall not be given 
for that which is not contained in the declaration, and 
only for what is materially alleged, i Lill.Abr. 3S1. 
Where a declaration is defective, it is fometimes aided 
by the ftatutes of amendment and jeofails, See. but they 
help only matters of form, not matters of lubftance. 5 
&/>• 35 - 
Gn filing declarations, copies thereof are ferved on the 
defendants or their attorneys. And by an order of all 
the judges, 12Will.HI. the plaintiff's attorney is not 
obliged to deliver the defendant’s attorney the original 
declaration ; bnt inbead of it, is to deliver a true copy 
of the declaration; upon delivery or tender whereof, the 
defendant’s attorney (hall pay for ftich copy after the rate 
of four pence per (beet, Sec. and if any perfon refufe to 
pay for the copy tendered, the laid copy is to be left in 
the office, with the clerk th,at keeps the files of declara¬ 
tions, and thereupon the plaintiff’s attorney giving rule 
to plead, may, for want of a plea,' (ign judgment ; and 
before any plea (hall be received, the defendant’s attorney 
is to pay for the copy of the declaration. And by ano¬ 
ther order, (Trin. 2 Geo. II.) in every caufe, where 
Ipecial or common bail is filed, and notice'given to the 
plaintiff, a c.opy of the declaration (hall be delivered to 
the attorney for the defendant, who {hall pay for it ac¬ 
cording to the ufual rate; but if the defendant’s attorney, 
or his cierk in his abfence, refufes to pay for fuch copy ; 
or if it happens the,habitation of theattorney for the de¬ 
fendant be unknown to the attorney for the plaintiff, then 
it (hail be lawful to leave the copy with the officer of the 
court appointed for filing declarations, which (hall be 
good, giving notice, Sec. 
BJECLA'RATIVE, adj. Making-declaration; expla¬ 
natory.—The names of tilings Ihpuld be always taken 
from fomething obfervably declarative of their form or 
nature. Grew. —Making proclamation.—To this we may 
add- the vox popufj, lo declarative on the fame fide. Swift. 
DECa.A'RATORlLY, adv. In the form of a decla¬ 
ration ; not in a decretory form.—Andreas Alciatus the 
civilian, and Francifcus de Cordua, have both declaratorily 
confirmed the fame. Brown. 
DECL A'R ATORY, adj. Affirmative; expreffive ; 
not decretory ; not promiffory, but expreffing fomething 
before promifed or decreed. Thus, a declaiatory law, is 
a new a£t confirming a former law.—Thefe blellings are 
not only declaratory of the good pleafure and intention of 
God towards them, but likeWife of the natural tendency 
of the thing. Tillotjon. 
To DECLA'RE, y.a. [ declaro , Lat.] To clear; to 
free from obfeurity : not in vfe. —To declare this a little, 
we mull alfume that the furfaces of Inch bodies are ex¬ 
actly fmootli. Boyle. —To make known ; to tell evidently 
and openly.—It hath been declared unto me of you, that 
there are contentions among you. 1 Cor. i. 11. 
The fun by certain figns declares 
Both when the fouth projects a ftormy day, 
And when the clearing north will puff the clouds away. 
Dry den. 
To publiffi; to proclaim. ^-Declare his glory among the 
heathen. 1 C/iron. xvi. 24.—To (hew in open view ; to 
Ikevv an opinion in plain terms.—-We are a confiderable 
DEC 
body, who, upon a proper occafion, would not fail to 
declare ourfelves. Addifon. 
To DECLA'RE, v. n. To make'a declaration ; to pro¬ 
claim fome refolution or opinion, or favour or oppofi- 
tion: with for or againft. —The internal fac'ulties’pf will 
and underbanding decreeing and declaring againjl them. 
Taylor. < 
Like fawning courtiers, for fuccefs they wait ; 
And then come fowling, and declare for fate. Dry den. 
DECLA'REMENT, f. Difcovery ; declaration ; tef- 
tirnony..—Cryftal will calefy into electricity ; that is, imo 
a power to attract draws, or light bodies’; and convert 
the needle freely placed, which is a dedaranent of very 
different parts. Brown. 
DECLA'RER, f. A proclaimer'; one that makes any 
tiling known. 
DLCLEN'SION, f. [declinatio, Lat.] Tendency from 
a greater to a lefs degree of excellence.—Take the pic¬ 
ture of a man in the greennefs and vivacity of his youth, 
and in the latter date and declenjion of his drooping years, 
and you will fcaree know it to belong to the lame perfon. 
South. 
A beauty-waining and dibreffed widow, 
Ev’n in the afternoon of her bed days, 
Seduc’d the pitch and height of all his thoughts 
To bafe dedeufon. S'hakefpearc. 
Declination ; defeent.—We may reafonably allow as 
much for the dcclcvfion of the land from that place to the 
fea, as for the immediate height of the mountain. Bur. 
net- —Inflexion; manner of changing,nouns. See the ar¬ 
ticle Grammar. — Declenfion is only the variation or 
change of the termination of a noun, whilft it continues 
to fignify the fame thing. Clarke. 
DECLILN'ABLE, adj. Having a variety of termina¬ 
tions : as, a declinable noun. 
DECLINA'TION,,/i \_dcdinatio, Lat.3 Defeent; 
change from a better to a vvorfe date ; diminution of vi¬ 
gour ; decay.—Two general motions all animations have, 
that is, their beginning and increafe ; and two more, that 
is, their date and declination. Brozon. 
Hope waits upon the flow’ry prime; 
And dimmer, though it‘be lei’s gay. 
Yet is not look’d on as a time 
Of declination or decay. Waller. 
The aCl: of bending down : as, a declination of the head. 
Variation from re'Etitude.; oblique motion; obliquity.— 
This declination of atoms in their defeent, was itfelf either 
neceflary or voluntary. Bentley. —Deviation from moral 
reCIitude.—That a peccant creature diould difapprove 
and repent of every declination and violation of the rules 
of jud and honed, this right reafon, difeourfing upon the 
dock of its own principles, could not but infer. South .— 
Variation from a fixed point.—There is no declination of 
latitude, nor variation of the elevation of the pole, not- 
withdanding what fome have afferted. Woodward. —[In 
navigation.] The variation of the needle from the di¬ 
rection to north and fouth. [In adronomy.] The dccli - 
nation of a bar, we call its Ihortelt didance from the equa¬ 
tor. Brown. See the article Astronomy. [In gram¬ 
mar.] The declenfion or inflection of a noun through its. 
various terminations. 
DECLINATION of a Plane, [in dialling,] an arch of 
the horizon, comprehended either between the plane and 
the prime vertical circle, if accounted from the eaft or 
wed ; or elfe between the meridian and the plane, if ac¬ 
counted from the north or fouth. Harris. 
DECLIN A'TOR, or DECLINATORY, f. An in- 
ftrument in dialling, by which the declination, reclination, 
and inclination, of planes are determined.—There are 
feveral ways to know the feveral planes ; but the readied 
is by an indrument called a declinatory, fined to the varia¬ 
tion of your place. Maxm. 
DECLINATORY,- 
