declinatory

Definitions

Containing or involving a declination or refusal, as of submission to a charge or sentence.

historical, not-comparable, obsolete

Equivalents

Examples

“[…] 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.”

“Declinatory exceptions do not tend⟳ to defeat⟳ the demand⟳, but only to decline⟳ the jurisdiction of the judge⟳ before whom it is brought.”

“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.”

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