Judge's declaration in a few words? (8)
I believe the answer is:
sentence
I believe this clue is a triple definition!
'judge's' is the first definition.
(I've seen this before)
'declaration' is the second definition.
(thesaurus)
'in' acts as a link.
'a few words?' is the third definition.
(a sentence is made up of words)
(Other definitions for sentence that I've seen before include "Writing piece" , "Judicial penalty" , "Jail term and grammatical term" , "Judgment on convict" , "Term of imprisonment" .)