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Transubstantiation

Church calls Transubstantiation.'-Creed of Pope Pius IV., founded on Ch. iv., sess. xiii., of the Council of Trent. Declaration against Transubstantiation.-A Declaration (commonly called the 'Declaration against Transubstantiation') was required of all members of either House of

Trust

s. 7 [reproduced by s. 53 (1) (b) of the Law of Property Act, 1925], requires that 'all declarations or creations of trusts or confidences of any lands, tenements, or hereditaments shall be manifested and proved by

protest

protest 1 : a solemn declaration of opinion and usually of disagreement: as a : a solemn written declaration by a notary public or

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Bill of Rights

Bill of Rights, a declaration delivered by the Lords and Commons to the Prince and Princess of Orange, and afterwards enacted in Parliament,

Uses

or executed; distributable into:- (a) Those arising by act of parties, which were created either- (1) By express declaration in a feoffment, deed, etc. (2) By presumed intention in a will; (3) By certain considerations. (b) Those

Deed

in an appointment under a power or (before 1926) in a covenant to stand seised, or a simple declaration of uses, because such deeds themselves fulfil that office by limiting the estate to be created. (g) Tenendum.

Res inter alios acta alteri nocere non debet

Ridgway, (1808) 10 East, 109; 2 Sm LC, and other cases in which entries of a deceased stranger declarant against his interest, or in the course of his business, have been held admissible, in illustration of the

Simony

licensed to any perpetual curacy, lectureship, or preachership. This declaration, which was only to the effect that the declarant had not been party to any contract to the best of his knowledge simoaniacal, is now superseded by

excited utterance

Excited utterances are an exception to the hearsay rule. They may be admitted as evidence even if the declarant is available as a witness.

state of mind exception

to the hearsay rule that allows the use of hearsay evidence regarding the state of mind of the declarant (as in a statement of intent or motive)

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