TO DECLARE
TO DECLARE. To make known or publish. By tho constitution of the United States, congress have power to declare war. In this sense the word, declare, signifies, not merely to make it known that war exists, but also to make war and to carry it on. 4 Dall. 37; 1 Story, Const. ยง428; Rawle on the Const. 109. In pleading, to declare, is the act of filing a declaration.
