Decree vs. Declaration

Decree and Declaration Definitions
Decree
An authoritative order having the force of law.
Declaration
An explicit, formal announcement, either oral or written.
Decree
The judgment of a court of equity.
Declaration
The act or process of declaring.
Decree
The judgment of a court.
Declaration
A statement of taxable goods or of properties subject to duty.
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Decree
A doctrinal or disciplinary act of an ecclesiastical authority.
Declaration
A formal statement initiating a lawsuit by specifying the facts and legal grounds for the relief sought; a complaint or petition.
Decree
An administrative act applying or interpreting articles of canon law.
Declaration
An unsworn statement of facts that is admissible as evidence.
Decree
To order, establish, or decide by decree
Decreed that the two kingdoms would be united.
Declaration
A bid, especially the final bid of a hand in certain card games.
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Decree
To issue a decree.
Declaration
A meld.
Decree
An edict or law.
Declaration
A written or oral indication of a fact, opinion, intention, belief, etc.
A declaration of love
Decree
(legal) The judicial decision in a litigated cause rendered by a court of equity.
Declaration
A list of items for various legal purposes, e.g. customs declaration.
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Decree
(legal) The determination of a cause in a court of admiralty or court of probate.
Declaration
The act or process of declaring.
Decree
(religion) A predetermination made by God; an act of providence.
Declaration
(cricket) The act, by the captain of a batting side, of declaring an innings closed.
Decree
To command by a decree.
A court decrees a restoration of property.
Declaration
(legal) In common law, the formal document specifying plaintiff's cause of action, including the facts necessary to sustain a proper cause of action, and to advise the defendant of the grounds upon which he is being sued.
Decree
An order from one having authority, deciding what is to be done by a subordinate; also, a determination by one having power, deciding what is to be done or to take place; edict, law; authoritative ru decision.
There went out a decree from Cæsar Augustus that all the world should be taxed.
Poor hand, why quiverest thou at this decree?
Declaration
(computing) The specification of an object, such as a variable or function, establishing its existence but not necessarily describing its contents.
Decree
A decision, order, or sentence, given in a cause by a court of equity or admiralty.
Declaration
The act of declaring, or publicly announcing; explicit asserting; undisguised token of a ground or side taken on any subject; proclamation; exposition; as, the declaration of an opinion; a declaration of war, etc.
Decree
An edict or law made by a council for regulating any business within their jurisdiction; as, the decrees of ecclesiastical councils.
Declaration
That which is declared or proclaimed; announcement; distinct statement; formal expression; avowal.
Declarations of mercy and love . . . in the Gospel.
Decree
To determine judicially by authority, or by decree; to constitute by edict; to appoint by decree or law; to determine; to order; to ordain; as, a court decrees a restoration of property.
Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee.
Declaration
The document or instrument containing such statement or proclamation; as, the Declaration of Independence (now preserved in Washington).
In 1776 the Americans laid before Europe that noble Declaration, which ought to be hung up in the nursery of every king, and blazoned on the porch of every royal palace.
Decree
To ordain by fate.
Declaration
A statement that is emphatic and explicit (spoken or written)
Decree
To make decrees; - used absolutely.
Father eternal! thine is to decree;Mine, both in heaven and earth to do thy will.
Declaration
(law) unsworn statement that can be admitted in evidence in a legal transaction;
His declaration of innocence
Decree
A legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge);
A friend in New Mexico said that the order caused no trouble out there
Declaration
A statement of taxable goods or of dutiable properties
Decree
Issue a decree;
The King only can decree
Declaration
(contract bridge) the highest bid becomes the contract setting the number of tricks that the bidder must make
Decree
Decide with authority;
The King decreed that all first-born males should be killed
Declaration
A formal public statement;
The government made an announcement about changes in the drug war
A declaration of independence
Declaration
A formal expression by a meeting; agreed to by a vote