Declarator definition
Declarator means the judicial ruling issued in response to the claim of the party seeking a declaration favourable to his rights or status.
Examples of Declarator in a sentence
Two types of actions could be raised: a Declarator of Marriage to prove a marriage and a Declarator of Freedom and Putting to Silence to disprove a marriage.
The dataset comprises all the cases of Declarator of Marriage, Declarator of Freedom (and/or Putting to Silence), Declarator of Legitimacy, and Declarator of Bastardy found within or outwith the Commissary Court records.
The first Declarator of Marriage case was in 1698; the first Legitimacy case was in 1694.
The data include transcriptions of the gist of all Declarator of Marriage and Declarator of Freedom cases found within the Commissary Court records (or, where the papers were missing, in printed Session Papers in the Signet Library), amounting to 506 cases.