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. Sec. 428; Rawle on the
Const. 109. In pleading, to declare, is the act of filing a declaration.