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Declaration vs Assent - What's the difference?

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Declaration is a related term of assent.


As nouns the difference between declaration and assent

is that declaration is declaration (written or oral indication of a fact, opinion, or belief) while assent is agreement, act of agreeing.

As a verb assent is

to agree to, give approval.

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

    assent

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To agree to, give approval.
  • * Macaulay
  • The princess assented to all that was suggested.
  • To admit a thing as true.
  • * Bible, Acts xxiv. 9
  • And the Jews also assented , saying that these things were so.

    Synonyms

    * accede *

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • agreement, act of agreeing
  • I will give this act my assent .

    Synonyms

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