The act of declaring a WTD to others often changes something in the corresponding relationship, which in turn has a further effect on a patient's WTD.
Although the act of declaring independence was considered important, the text announcing that act attracted little attention.
Federalists insisted that Congress's act of declaring independence, in which Federalist John Adams had played a major role, was more important than the document announcing that act.
In U.S. slang, "skimming" is the act of failing to declare certain income to avoid tax payment.
Even UNESCO has gotten in on the act, declaring the Bauhaus buildings of Dessau and Weimar World Heritage sites.
The Act of Supremacy in 1534 declared that the King was "the only Supreme Head in Earth of the Church of England" and the Treasons Act 1534 made it high treason, punishable by death, to refuse the Oath of Supremacy acknowledging the King as such.
This was followed by the Second Succession Act (the Act of Succession 1536), which declared Henry's children by Jane to be next in the line of succession and declared both Mary and Elizabeth illegitimate, thus excluding them from the throne.
That's normally not considered a war crime, although the United States, in the Military Commissions Act of 2009, declared it one if the US soldier was killed by someone not in uniform - known as an unprivileged enemy belligerent.
This leads to the principle of best interests, where the act of imposition is justified by declaring that it is in the best interests of the child.
