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Clearance vs Declaration - What's the difference?

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In lang=en terms the difference between clearance and declaration

is that clearance is removal of pieces from a rank, file or diagonal so that a bishop, rook or queen is free to move along it while declaration is in common law, the formal document specifying plaintiff’s cause of action, including the facts necessary to sustain a proper cause of action, and to advise the defendant of the grounds upon which he is being sued.

As nouns the difference between clearance and declaration

is that clearance is the act of clearing or something (such as a space) cleared while declaration is a written or oral indication of a fact, opinion, or belief.

clearance

English

Noun

  • The act of clearing or something (such as a space) cleared
  • The distance between two moving objects, especially between parts of a machine
  • The height or width of a tunnel, bridge or other passage, or the distance between a vehicle and the walls or roof of such passage; a gap, headroom.
  • A permission for a vehicle to proceed, or for a person to travel.
  • The plane got clearance from air traffic control, and we were off.
    He got clearance to travel to America, even though he had previous links to terrorists
  • A permission to have access to sensitive or secret documents or other information
  • A sale of merchandise at a reduced price.
  • (banking, finance) The settlement of transactions involving securities or means of payment such as checks by means of a clearing house.
  • (medicine) The removal of harmful substances from the blood; renal clearance.
  • (sports, billiards, snooker, pool) The act of potting all the remaining balls on a table at one visit.
  • (soccer) The act of kicking a ball away from the goal one is defending.
  • * {{quote-news
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  • (chess) Removal of pieces from a rank, file or diagonal so that a bishop, rook or queen is free to move along it.
  • Clear or net profit.
  • (Trollope)

    declaration

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A written or oral indication of a fact, opinion, or belief.
  • A list of items for various legal purposes, e.g. customs declaration.
  • The act or process of declaring.
  • (cricket) The act, by the captain of a batting side, of declaring an innings closed.
  • (legal) In common law, the formal document specifying plaintiff’s cause of action, including the facts necessary to sustain a proper cause of action, and to advise the defendant of the grounds upon which he is being sued.
  • (computing) The specification of a variable's type
  • Quotations

    * 1611 , (King James Version of the Bible), 1:1 *: Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us...

    Synonyms

    * (written or oral indication) avowal, notice, statement * (list of items for legal purposes) notice, statement * (act or process of declaring) notice

    See also

    * complaint * statutory * statutory declaration