declinatory
nounEtymology From Latin declinatorius, from declinare: compare French déclinatoire.
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Law Historical, Obsolete A declination or refusal.
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Synonym of declinator (“instrument for measuring declination”).
declinatory
adjUK /dɪˈklɪnətɹi/
Etymology From Latin declinatorius, from declinare: compare French déclinatoire.
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Law Historical, Obsolete Containing or involving a declination or refusal, as of submission to a charge or sentence.
- […] that the prisoner should first be arraigned, and might either then claim his benefit of clergy, by way of declinatory plea, or after conviction by way of arresting judgment.1765, Sir William Blackstone, The Student's Blackstone: Commentaries on the Laws of England, in Four Books, published 1865:
- Declinatory exceptions do not tend to defeat the demand, but only to decline the jurisdiction of the judge before whom it is brought.1901, Henry Lastrapes Garland, editor, Code of Practice of Louisiana: With Annotations of Henry L. Garland:
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- That case, like the present one, involved a declinatory exception by the respondent State when it was sued for fees for legal services and for an accounting.2014, John O. Haley, Fundamentals of Transnational Litigation: The United States, Canada, Japan, and The European Union:
- Related terms
- declinatory plea