declinatory
English
Etymology
From Latin declinatorius, from declinare: compare French déclinatoire.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /dɪˈklɪnətɹi/
Adjective
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, 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.
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