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declinatory
/dɪˈklɪnətɹi/
noun 2adj 1
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3ADJ.
involved
DECLINATORY + NOUN
exception, exceptions, plea
PREP.
after
Definitions
adj
1
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.
Declinatory exceptions do not tend to defeat the demand, but only to decline the jurisdiction of the judge before whom it is brought.
noun
1
A declination or refusal.
2
Synonym of declinator (“instrument for measuring declination”).
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[…] 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.
Wiktionary02
Declinatory exceptions do not tend to defeat the demand, but only to decline the jurisdiction of the judge before whom it is brought.
Wiktionary03
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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