declarator

/ dɪˈklærətə /

noun

1. Scots law an action seeking to have some right, status, etc, judicially ascertained

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"We are asking the court to issue a declarator that the school guidance and the prison guidance are unlawful and that they be reduced in whole," it said.

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They will go to the Court of Session seeking what is called a declarator that the prime minister cannot lawfully advise the Queen to suspend parliament.

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She wrote: "I therefore find that the petitioner's rights under article eight have been breached; that he is a victim; and I will hear counsel on whether a declarator or any other remedy is necessary at a date to be fixed."

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DECLARATOR, in Scots law, a form of action by which some right of property, or of servitude, or of status, or some inferior right or interest, is sought to be judicially declared.

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No man who has glanced at this volume will accuse him of knowing the difference between a process of Ranking and Sale and a Declarator of Legitimacy; and he may comfort himself with the conviction that his literary pursuits are quite as lawful at the present time as they were some years ago.

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