The Judicature Act expressly provides that the forms of declarations in common use may be employed or a briefer statement can be used containing "Such information as shall reasonably inform the defendant of the nature of the case he is called upon to defend."

The formal parts of a declaration are: First, the title, (a) as to the court, and (b) as to the time when filed or delivered; second, the venue in the margin; third, the commencement; fourth, the body or statement of the cause of action, consisting of three principal parts, viz., (a) the right, (b) the injury to

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such right, and (c) the consequent damages; and fifth, the conclusion.

It is hardly necessary to comment upon the title or venue. What is termed the "commencement" of the declaration follows the venue in the margin and precedes the more circumstantial statement of the cause of action. In suits by infants or by or against assignees, executors, administrators, etc., the commencement is varied from the form employed when the parties sue or are sued in their individual capacities; infants are stated to sue by guardian or next friend, etc.

After the commencement of the declaration, the body or statement of the cause of action follows in natural order, and in every description of action, consists of the right, whether founded upon contract or tort independent of contract, the injury to such right and the consequent damages.

"The plaintiff in his declaration, and the defendant in his plea, shall state the name of the attorney or attorneys by whom they respectively appear.138

In the conclusion of a declaration the plaintiff shall set forth his claim for judgment whether for money or property, or both.139