Declinatory

Quick meaning: Declinatory is an adjective meaning (law, obsolete or historical) Containing or involving a declination or refusal, as of submission to a charge or sentence.

Meaning

(law, obsolete or historical) Containing or involving a declination or refusal, as of submission to a charge or sentence.

More Meanings

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

Example Sentences

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.

[…] 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.

Word Forms

• declinatories

Synonyms for declinatory

Depending on context, synonyms include declinator.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include defiatory, abdicative, decretory, infirmative, deprecative, dissentive.

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