• In law, a declaration is an authoritative establishment of fact. Declarations take various forms in different legal systems. In the canon law of the Catholic...
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    original text related to this article: Universal Declaration of Human Rights The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is an international document...
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    The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (French: Déclaration des droits de l'Homme et du citoyen de 1789), set by France's National Constituent...
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    The Declaration of Independence, formally titled The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America in both the engrossed version and the...
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  • its innings closed Declaration (law), authoritative establishment of fact, with various uses in law Customs declaration Declaration of independence, an...
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    international law such as the United Nations Charter, which prohibits both the threat and the use of force in international conflicts, have made declarations of...
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  • law contains no prohibition on declarations of independence", though the state from which the territory wishes to secede may regard the declaration as...
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    A declaration of war is a formal declaration issued by a national government indicating that a state of war exists between that nation and another. A document...
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    The Paris Declaration respecting Maritime Law of 16 April 1856 was an international multilateral treaty agreed to by the warring parties in the Crimean...
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  • chooses to forfeit an innings without batting. Declaration and forfeiture are covered in Law 15 of the Laws of Cricket. This concept applies only to matches...
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  • In the law of evidence, a dying declaration is testimony that would normally be barred as hearsay but may in common law nonetheless be admitted as evidence...
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    Affidavit (category Evidence law)
    Declaration (law) Deposition (law) Fishman Affidavit, a well-known example of an affidavit Performativity Statutory declaration Sworn declaration Wikimedia...
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    The Balfour Declaration was a public statement issued by the British Government in 1917 during the First World War announcing its support for the establishment...
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    Intestacy (redirect from Law of descent)
    in force a valid will or other binding declaration. Alternatively this may also apply where a will or declaration has been made, but only applies to part...
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  • A statutory declaration is a legal document defined under the law of certain Commonwealth nations and in the United States. It is similar to a statement...
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    Article 5.) List of declarations, conventions, treaties, and judgments on the laws of war: 1856 Paris Declaration Respecting Maritime Law abolished privateering...
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    Penghu). The provincial martial law order was then superseded by an amendment of the "Declaration of Nationwide Martial Law", which was enacted by the central...
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  • International Court of Justice. The Court determined that the declaration did not violate international law. As a result of the ICJ decision, a joint Serbia–EU...
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    Accordance with International Law of the Unilateral Declaration of Independence in Respect of Kosovo was a request in 2008 for an advisory opinion referred...
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    The Catalan declaration of independence (Catalan: Declaració d'independència de Catalunya; Spanish: Declaración de Independencia de Cataluña) was a resolution...
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    The Balfour Declaration of 1926, issued by the 1926 Imperial Conference of British Empire leaders in London, was named after Arthur Balfour, who was Lord...
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    Public Law (United States) 77–328, 55 Stat. 795) on the Empire of Japan in response to its surprise attack on Pearl Harbor and subsequent declaration of war...
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  • The Israeli Declaration of Independence, formally the Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel (Hebrew: הכרזה על הקמת מדינת ישראל), was...
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    explicitly permit the declaration of martial law, but where martial law has been declared, the legal justification for it is often the common law doctrine of necessity...
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    The Irpin Declaration (Russian: Ирпенская декларация, romanized: Irpenskaya deklaratsiya; Ukrainian: Ірпінська декларація, romanized: Irpinska deklaratsiia)...
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  • The London Declaration concerning the Laws of Naval War was a proposed international code of maritime law, especially as it relates to wartime activities...
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    The London Declaration was a declaration issued by the 1949 Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference on the issue of India's continued membership of the...
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  • Stockholm Declaration of 1972, or the Declaration of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment, is the first United Nations declaration on the...
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    declaration as an aspiration for how indigenous individuals and peoples should be treated. This declaration is a resolution, meaning it is not a law-bearing...
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    The signing of the United States Declaration of Independence occurred primarily on August 2, 1776, at the Pennsylvania State House, later renamed Independence...
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