Also known as: narratio · narration · declaration · count
Written by attorneys · grounded in primary & secondary sources — see below
A formal declaration or complaint filed in a legal pleading.
Select any source to read its text and confirm it supports the definition.
Norman Nash owns a parcel of land. He executes a signed statement declaring that he now holds the land as trustee for his children. The statement identifies the land with particularity. Under the applicable statute this narr. alone creates a valid trust without any transfer to a third party.
Nina Nielsen files a complaint alleging breach of contract and fraud arising from two separate transactions. She places each claim in its own numbered paragraph limited to a single set of facts. The later paragraphs refer back by number to earlier ones to avoid repetition and promote clarity in the narr.
Navarro Industries records a declaration imposing use restrictions on every lot in a new subdivision. The declaration states that the restrictions run with the land for the benefit of all lots. When the first lot is sold the restrictions become servitudes enforceable by and against all subsequent purchasers via the recorded narr.
Nancy Nelson files a petition seeking dissolution of her marriage to Neville Norton. The caption reads In re the Marriage of Nancy Nelson and Neville Norton. The court accepts the petition because the title follows the required statutory form for the narr.
A railroad company challenges a city ordinance that bars construction above its terminal. The company argues the restriction constitutes a taking. The Court examines whether the regulation denies the owner all economically viable use or interferes with distinct investment-backed expectations stated in the narr.
A married couple challenges a state statute criminalizing the use of contraceptives. They argue the law invades a zone of privacy protected by the Constitution. The Court recognizes that specific guarantees in the Bill of Rights create penumbras that protect marital privacy as pleaded in the narr.
Narr. is the standard abbreviation for narratio, the formal declaration or complaint that begins a lawsuit.
Under the Uniform Trust Code a settlor may create a trust simply by declaring in a signed writing that identifiable property is now held in trust.
Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 10(b) requires numbered paragraphs so that each claim rests on a single set of circumstances and later pleadings can refer to them by number.
…-- Case information - Decided: 23 February 1854 - Judges: Alderson, B. The first count of the declaration stated that, before and at the time of the making by the defendants of the promises hereinafter mentioned, the plaintiffs carried on the business of millers and mealmen in copartnership,…