Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

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self-serving declaration

An out-of-court statement made to benefit one's own interest. 7. Common-law pleading. The plaintiff's first pleading in a civil action. ( It is an amplification of the original writ on which the action is founded, with the additional circumstances of the time and place of injury. In a real action, the declaration is called a count. Today the equivalent term in English law is statement of claim; in most American jurisdictions, it is called a petition or complaint. - Also termed narratio. See COUNT (3). Cf. PLEA (2). "The declaration is a statement of all material facts constituting the plaintiffs cause of action in a methodical and legal form. It consists of the following parts: (a) Statement of title of court. (b) Statement of venue in the margin. (c) The commencement. (d) The body, or statement of the cause of action. (e) The conclusion." Benjamin J. Shipman, Handbook of Common-Lace Pleading § 76, at 192 (Henry Winthrop Ballantine ed., 3d ed. 1923).

self-serving declaration.

See DECLARATION (s).