declinatory

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

Adjective

  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. - 1765, Sir William Blackstone, The...
    • 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...
    • 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...

Origin

From Latin declinatorius, from declinare: compare French déclinatoire.

Related

declinatory plea

Noun

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

    Synonyms: declinator

Forms

declinatories