declinatory

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English

Etymology

From Latin declinatorius, from declinare: compare French déclinatoire.

Pronunciation

Adjective

declinatory (not comparable)

  1. (law, obsolete or historical) Containing or involving a declination or refusal, as of submission to a charge or sentence.
    • 1765, Sir William Blackstone, The Student's Blackstone: Commentaries on the Laws of England, in Four Books‎, published 1865:
      […] 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.
    • 1901, Henry Lastrapes Garland, editor, Code of Practice of Louisiana: With Annotations of Henry L. Garland‎:
      Declinatory exceptions do not tend to defeat the demand, but only to decline the jurisdiction of the judge before whom it is brought.
    • 2014, John O. Haley, Fundamentals of Transnational Litigation: The United States, Canada, Japan, and The European Union‎:
      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.

Noun

declinatory (plural declinatories)

  1. (law, obsolete or historical) A declination or refusal.
  2. Synonym of declinator (“instrument for measuring declination”)

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