declinatory
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin declinatorius, from declinare: compare French déclinatoire.
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
declinatory (not comparable)
- (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[1], 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[2]:
- 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[3]:
- 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.